It was 9:30 in the morning; Germany had declared war on Russia. President Roosevelt in his second-floor study in the White House faced the strangest and perhaps the most momentous turn of World War II. It was something which he had not dared hope for. And it might turn out to be the luckiest military break for the U.S.outside of an outright defeat for Germany in battlethat the President could have hoped for.
For the past two years there have been few moments when Franklin Roosevelt could pity either Stalin or Hitler. But...
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