Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943

By Nigel Hamilton

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (2016) is a history by the biographer Nigel Hamilton, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is the second volume of his trilogy on Franklin D. Roosevelt at war, after The Mantle of Command. It covers 1943, when Roosevelt, as commander in chief, overruled Winston Churchill and the British chiefs of staff on strategy for defeating Germany and insisted on a cross-Channel invasion of France.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “For the history buffs on your list I'd recommend Nigel Hamilton's "Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill 1943." This is the memoir that FDR would have written had he lived.”