Program Description
Event Details
Focus is on Allied leadership that helped defeat the Axis Powers in WW2. Included are events leading up to the war (1932-39) and events in the post-war period (1945-1956).
Leadership includes heads of government, top military leaders, key government officials, noted civilian leaders, heads of security agencies and leaders of resistance fighters within occupied countries.
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Current Readings
Max Hastings, The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945, 2016
Craig Symonds, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, 2014
Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory in Sicily, 2010