1944 by Jay Winik

A lot about Roosevelt but even more about the war particularly the conditions in Auschwitz and other death camps.  There is some new information here but mostly Winik raises a lot of questions. He chooses 1944 because it is the year that Roosevelt fully commits to defeating Germany, gives an even bigger green light to the invention of the nuclear bomb, and finally acknowledges the need to stop the horror of the camps.  Why did it take so long?  How much did Roosevelt's post war plans interfere with a more aggressive approach to ending the war?  Winik might suggest that as a country we may have failed to learn the lessons this particular history taught us. Read and draw your own conclusions.