Summary
It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies -- but with a fateful cost. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at the pi... Full description
- Prelude: The sphinx
- Part I. Spring 1944: Everything all at once
- Tehran
- "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day."
- Escape
- Escape, part two
- "This is the year 1944"
- "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?"
- Part II. The road to 1944
- Beginnings
- Mills of the gods
- Giant cemeteries
- Riegner
- 1943
- "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews"
- Part III. The fateful decision
- Trapped between knowing and not knowing
- The wind and the silence
- Part IV. 1945
- Reckoning.