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At the Army's 147th General Hospital, Franklin Roosevelt made a tour of five wards, talking to the wounded, telling them they would soon be home. He stopped beside the bed of a young soldier suffering from a gangrenous lung condition. A tube was carrying penicillin and a potassium...
Underneath the Roses. Up at 6 a.m. the next morning, he drove the seven miles to his office in the Federal Court Building in Kansas City. By now everybody knew that Harry Truman was back. Callers streamed into the large reception room, sat staring at pictures of Jim Farley, John...
With the tense haste of a man who knew it was now or never, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk summoned his Cabinet. In a paneled drawing room at No. 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, under a staring portrait of late great Premier Wladislaw Sikorski, apostle of Russo-Polishrapprochement, the ministers listened to the news...
The dead German lay in a ditch. In his worn, dirty infantry-private's uniform, he looked like a fallen bronze statue covered with a heavy greyish-green patina-except for the wax-yellow face, the blond hair and the staring blue eyes. He was young, not much over...
The narrative high point of Welles's book is the long chapter describing his 1940 mission to Europe which was undertaken in the fragile hope that the "phony" war might somehow be halted before the real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but...