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100			_aWinik, Jay, _d1957- _eauthor. _923769
111		0	_923772 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
245	1	0	_a1944 : FDR and the year that changed history / _cJay Winik.
246	3	0	_aFDR and the year that changed history
250			_aLarge print edition.
260			_aFarmington Hills, Michigan _bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning _c2016
300			_a1027 pages (large print) : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aThorndike press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
500			_a"Published in 2016 by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aPrelude: The sphinx -- Part I. Spring 1944: Everything all at once -- Tehran -- "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day." -- Escape -- Escape, part two -- "This is the year 1944" -- "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?" -- Part II. The road to 1944 -- Beginnings -- Mills of the gods -- Giant cemeteries -- Riegner -- 1943 -- "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews" -- Part III. The fateful decision -- Trapped between knowing and not knowing -- The wind and the silence -- Part IV. 1945 -- Reckoning.
520			_aIt was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies -- but with a fateful cost. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at the pinnacle of his wartime leadership as well as his reelection, the planning of Operation Overlord with Churchill and Stalin, the unprecedented D-Day invasion and the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and the tumultuous conferences that finally shaped the coming peace. But on the way, millions of more lives were still at stake as President Roosevelt was exposed to mounting evidence of the most grotesque crime in history, the Final Solution. Just as the Allies were landing in Normandy, the Nazis were accelerating the killing of European Jews. Winik shows how escalating pressures fell on Roosevelt, whose rapidly deteriorating health was a closely guarded secret. Was winning the war the best way to rescue the Jews? Was a rescue even possible? Or would it get in the way of defeating Hitler? In a year when even the most audacious undertakings were within the world's reach, including the liberation of Europe, one challenge -- saving Europe's Jews -- seemed to remain beyond Roosevelt's grasp.
600		0	_aRoosevelt, Franklin D _q(Franklin Delano), _d1882-1945 _xInfluence. _923770
600		0	_aRoosevelt, Franklin D. _q(Franklin Delano), _d1882-1945. _2fast _923771
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650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zUnited States. _923773
650		0	_aPolitical leadership _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _923774
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655		0	_93726 _aLarge type books.
830		0	_aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
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