Re: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:16:03 +0200, [email protected] (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:

>If it had been up to Churchill there would have been nothing to divide.
>All of Europe would have been for Stalin.
>It was Roosevelt who forced the Normandy invasion.
>We Europeans have been lucky. For a while the Americans (read FDR)
>were so fed up with British hesitations and delaying tactics
>that they seriously considered giving up on Europe.
>(and doing Japan first)
>
>You may want to have a look at
>Nigel Hamilton, Commander In Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
>(FDR at War Book 2)
>There is also a good review of it at Amazon.

The entire lead up to the war was a mess of UK and European mistakes.

Churchill all but begged FDR for help.  As for delays, FDR was the
master of them, never committing American troops or resources until
others had done the heavy lifting.  Stalin begged them to open a
western front but FDR and Churhill both knew that getting in a rush
would lead to failure.  They took their time, they prepared carefully
and allowed Russia to take the brunt of Hitler's wrath and weaken his
western front before attacking in France.
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