Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler by David McKean

Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

David McKean

416 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced

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A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentionsAs German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay...

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