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

by David McKean

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A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions

As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau, an eighteenth Renaissance...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1250206960

ISBN13:9781250206961

Release Date:November 2021

Publisher:St. Martin's Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.52 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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