I created this blog, because so many people have asked me for book recommendations. If you are looking at Amazon's customer reviews, I am "voracious reader" from Houston, Texas. I hope that you will get enough information from this blog, and you won't have to search the Amazon reviews. I have also included DVD reviews here too.

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Citizens Of London: The Americans who Stood With Britain in its Darkest by Lynne Olson - 4.5 stars


How the U.S. finally came to the aid of Britain, the only European power left fighting the Nazis.  The book revolves around three U.S. characters: Gil Winant, Averill Harriman, and Edward R. Murrow all of whom wanted the U.S. to enter the war even tho Roosevelt tarried.  As England held on by her fingernails our U.S, ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, hid out at his country house and told Roosevelt that England was going to lose the war and the U.S. should not waste its resources trying to save her.  Kennedy was also a Nazi sympathizer.  The English people and its government did not care for him. The appointment of Winant was a game changer and he was greeted upon his arrival at the train station by the King of England.  Winant, Harriman, and Murrow were very close to the entire Churchill family.  This is not a dry read of history, It was a page turner. You will also read about Pamela Harriman and how she seduced so many men close to power.

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