Fighting Evil with the Help of Satan - President Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, 1939-1945 (Paperback)

The main subject of this book is the examination and the analysis of the less known and highly controversial dimensions of the wartime leadership of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Every aspect of those areas was connected with FDR's attitude toward two individuals and two countries: Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany on one side, and Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union on the other. The image of the principal character of the book is a complicated one. This is an image that doesn't fit the black and white interpretations of the numerous authors who adored Roosevelt, or who hated him. The very magnitude of the dramatic contradiction between the amazing insight demonstrated by FDR with regard to Nazi Totalitarianism, and his staggering blindness toward the threat of the much more sophisticated left-wing version of the same phenomenon is a fascinating subject for historical research and interpretation. By providing personal management and leadership to all aspects of the Lend-Lease program, President Roosevelt became the engine that set in motion the powerful mechanism of the American support to the military effort of the Soviet Union and Great Britain, without which neither country would have survived the intensity of the Nazi assault. At the same time, the temptation of President Roosevelt to win over the elusive friendship of Joseph Stalin has made possible the Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe.