Mantle Of Command is easily one of the best books I have read on the command structure of the United States Military. It shows in immense detail how FDR and his people took America from a backwater military power and mostly isolationist stance on the world to a Global Superpower that has become the World's Police for better or worse. I found it to be an utterly fascinating study of how America began to get to where she is today and highly recommended this to anybody interested in the ramifications that WW2 had on the rest of the 20th century and even today. The second volume is on my TBR pile.
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