{"title":"Joseph E. Persico","description":"Joseph E. Persico's books include Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, which was made into a major television docudrama, and Piercing the Reich, on the penetration of Nazi Germany by American agents. He is also the coauthor of General Colin Powell's autobiography, My American Journey.","products":[{"product_id":"roosevelts-secret-war-fdr-and-world-war-ii-espionage-paperback","title":"Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoosevelt's Secret War\u003c\/b\u003e is crowded with remarkable revelations: \u003cbr\u003e-FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor\u003cbr\u003e-A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office\u003cbr\u003e-Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia\u003cbr\u003e-Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret\u003cbr\u003e-An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoosevelt's Secret War \u003c\/b\u003ealso describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europe's Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymaster's talent for intrigue. He once remarked, \"I never let my right hand know what my left hand does.\" Not only did Roosevelt create America's first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under \"Wild Bill\" Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFDR was also spied \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRoosevelt's Secret War \u003c\/b\u003epresents evidence that the Soviet Union had a source inside the Roosevelt White House; that British agents fed FDR total fabrications to draw the United States into war; and that Roosevelt, by yielding to Churchill's demand that British scientists be allowed to work on the Manhattan Project, enabled the secrets of the bomb to be stolen. And these are only a few of the scores of revelations in this constantly surprising story of Roosevelt's hidden role in World War II.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. \u003cbr\u003eRoosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations: \u003cbr\u003e-FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor\u003cbr\u003e-A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office\u003cbr\u003e-Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia\u003cbr\u003e-Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret\u003cbr\u003e-An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoosevelt's Secret War also describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europe's Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor? \u003cbr\u003eBy temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymaster's talent for intrigue. He once remarked, \"I never let my right hand know what my left hand does.\" Not only did Roosevelt create America's first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under \"Wild Bill\" Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends. \u003cbr\u003eFDR was also spied \"against. Roosevelt's Secret War presents evidence that the Soviet Union had a source inside the Roosevelt White House; that British agents fed FDR total fabrications to draw the UnitedStates into war; and that Roosevelt, by yielding to Churchill's demand that British scientists be allowed to work on the Manhattan Project, enabled the secrets of the bomb to be stolen. And these are only a few of the scores of revelations in this constantly surprising story of Roosevelt's hidden role in World War II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368262402271,"sku":"9780375761263","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hmUC0tGExX9780375761263.webp?v=1789125135"},{"product_id":"eleventh-month-eleventh-day-eleventh-hour-armistice-day-1918-world-war-i-and-its-violent-climax-paperback","title":"Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovember 11, 1918. \u003c\/b\u003eThe final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered-more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous-among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers' lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war's last hour. Persico recounts the war's bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Paths of Glory.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called \"the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovember 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered-more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. \u003cbr\u003eJoseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous-among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers' lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war's last hour. Persico recounts the war's bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes \"All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and\" Paths of Glory. \u003cbr\u003eThe pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called \"the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368433123551,"sku":"9780375760457","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YZUzBDBQgW9780375760457.webp?v=1789128411"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joseph-e-persico.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}