—The tremendous impact that US Ambassador Gil Winant, CBS reporter Ed Murrow, and businessman Averell Harriman had on the sprawling events of WWII—
The Non-fiction Feature
Citizens of London – The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Author: Lynne Olson
Publisher: Random House
Pages: 471 | 2011
As Roosevelt saw it, however, she and his other interventionist critics failed to understand the complexity of the situation he faced. While public opinion might be blurred and confused, congressional opinion apparently was not: according to one poll, for example, some 80 percent of members of Congress opposed naval convoying, even if ‘necessary to prevent a British defeat by Hitler.’
The Fiction Spot
The Lost Vintage
by Ann Mah
“The Resistance literature. Who had left it there? I had spent half the night racking my brain, but still none of it made sense: How on earth did those things end up in the same house as a known Nazi sympathizer?”
The Product Spot
The National WWII Museum
The National WWII Museum tells the story of the American experience in the war that changed the world—why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today.