The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism

6 best books like The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Stanley Cloud): Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945, Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II, Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949, Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945

Author	James MacGregor Burns
ISBN	0156027577

The concluding volume of Burns' biography on FDR - this one covering the war years from just after the 1940 election (leading to an unprecedented third term for FDR) to FDR's death on 4/12/45. Burns does a good job covering Roosevelt's cultivation of his two main Allies: Churchill and Stalin. The multiple...

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Author

Lynne Olson

The dramatic true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade--codename Hedgehog--the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days.

In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman...

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II

Author	Lynne Olson
ISBN	0375411976

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.

Centering on five pilots of the...

Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949

Author	Richard Reeves
ISBN	1416541195

In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II--pilots, navigators, and mechanics--who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local...

Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War

Author	Lynne Olson
ISBN	0812997352

An engrossing account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler. When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the...

The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

Author	David L. Roll
ISBN	0199891958

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.

In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the...