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Focus is on Allied leadership that helped defeat the Axis Powers in WW2. Events leading up to the war (1932-39) and the immediate post-war period (1945-1952) are also included.
Leadership includes heads of government, top military leaders, key government officials, heads of security agencies and leaders of resistance fighters within occupied countries.
FOR SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER
- Lynne Olson, Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, 2018
- Arthur Herman, Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, 2012
- Paul Dickson, et al, The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor, 2020
FOR JANUARY-MARCH 2025
- Debi and Irwin Unger, George Marshall: A Biography, 2014
- Jonathan W. Jordan, Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest i n Europe, 2011