All Behind You, Winston: Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45 by Roger Hermiston

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Foreign enemies can unite political foes.  One such instance is chronicled in All Behind You Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45.  This volume documents the consensus and disputes, initiatives advanced and those deferred, and the leaders o

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The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved The Republican Party And His Country, And Conceived A New World Order by David Levering Lewis

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Karl Von Clausewitz, a renowned Prussian general and military theorist, once famously stated, "War is the continuation of politics by other means."  To understand war then, one must go behind the frontlines into the political realm to the people an

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Uniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War II

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War History is not limited to the exploits of generals, admirals and GI Joes.  As von Clausewitz remarked “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”  As War History Readers know, war is admixed with domestic

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The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw Da Capo Press, 2004

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A friend brought The Longest Winter to my attention.   It documents the exploits of World War II’s most decorated American platoon, the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 394^th Infantry Regiment, 99^th Infantry Division.  When the Battle of th

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