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The sphinx, Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the road to World War II, Nicholas Wapshott - (hardcover)
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Summary
  • Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war
Table of contents
  • The Sphinx -- London calling -- One good turn -- New Dealers -- Cliveden and Windsor Castle -- Lindbergh's flight -- Peace in our time -- Kristallnacht -- On the march -- A state of war -- The battle of neutrality -- Third term fever -- The Battle of France -- Life of the party -- The Battle of Britain -- Ford's plans for peace -- The old campaigner -- "Over my dead body" -- High noon -- The battle of lend-lease -- Lindbergh's best shot -- Jesus Christ! what a man! -- We've got ourselves a convoy -- Barbarossa -- Day on infamy -- Isolationism redux
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  • eng
Literary form
  • non fiction
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Edition
  • First edition.
Physical description
  • xvi, 446 pages, 25 cm
Isbn
  • 9780393088885
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  • Charleston County Public Library - Main Borrow it
    68 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC, 29401, US
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    Charleston, SC, US
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