{"title":"Nigel Hamilton","description":"NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard \"Monty\" Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. 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After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton s account drives toward Operation Torch the invasion of French Northwest Africa and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. \u003ci\u003eThe Mantle of Command\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history s greatest conflict.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [Author photo] (c) Frank Monkiewicz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard Monty Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the first president of the Biographers International Organization.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366008193247,"sku":"9780544227842","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/R-IwdTBLhu9780544227842.webp?v=1789077294"},{"product_id":"commander-in-chief-fdrs-battle-with-churchill-1943-paperback","title":"Commander in Chief: Fdr's Battle with Churchill, 1943 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Nigel Hamilton's acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1943 was the year of Allied military counteroffensives, beating back the forces of the Axis powers in North Africa and the Pacific--the \"Hinge of Fate,\" as Winston Churchill called it. 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