George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture - FDR And Marshall The Men Who Saved D-Day
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English - May 24, 2019 20:05 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsSociety & Culture History video story museum history preservation civil war virginia lectures banner lectures Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On May 14, 2019, author Nigel Hamilton delivered the George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it is fitting we remember the men who ensured the great invasion took place: the U.S. commander in chief, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his chief of staff of the U.S. Army, General George C. Marshall. Based on his new book, War and Peace, Nigel Hamilton tells how the two leaders overcame bitter British reluctance to bring an end to Europe's long nightmare. 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. Hamilton's most recent book, War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945, is the final volume of his trilogy on how Franklin Roosevelt won World War II as U.S. commander in chief.