Craig Nelson’s book V is For Victory has it all: FDR’s early days of combatting the Great Depression, restoring faith in the country and gearing up for a war that many hoped would never come. But it was FDR putting the country on the right path that got the US ready to aid the Allies and eventually enter the war. And win it.
Episode 445-Interview w/ Louise Endres Moore about her book, Alfred: The Quiet History of a WWII Infantryman
Louise Endres Moore comes on to talk about her dad’s combat journey as she finds out he was more than a barber and translator. He operated a machine gun on the front lines. But you would never know it by what he didn’t say for the rest of his life. He was at the...