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Cargando... The First Lady of World War IIpor Shannon McKenna Schmidt
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() WW2, historical-figures, historical-places-events, historical-research, historical-setting, history, history-and-culture, famous-persons, Pacific-theater-of-operations, 1943***** When I was a teenager I wanted to learn how to knit sox because the woman who embodied the United Nations to me and others was often pictured knitting sox while waiting for whatever came next. This book does justice to that woman and how she faced down the malignant racism and misogyny in the militaries of more than just the USA as well as the foolish back home. But not those who cared about the men in their command, like Adm. Halsey and others. Or the men she spoke with under rigorous conditions of war in the tropics. The author has taken a massive amount of research materials and formed all that into a very readable accounting of Eleanor's time in the Pacific in 1943 as she herself reported it to the general public via radio and newspapers as well as the reports that she sent back to the President. I was disappointed that the e-book did not have the photos that were credited at the end. I requested and received an EARC from Sourcebooks via NetGalley. Thank you! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces battled the Japanese for control of the region, Eleanor was THERE, spending five weeks traveling to islands in the area, as well as Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia, on a mission as First Lady of the United States to experience what our servicemen were experiencing... and report back home"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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![]() GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)973.917History and Geography North America United States 1901- Roosevelt Through Truman Administrations F.D. RooseveltClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:![]()
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