Indomitable Will

Charles Kupfer is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Penn State Harrisburg. He is the author of We Felt the Flames: Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story.

• Introduction; Chapter 1: An Infamous Christmas Season * December, 1941; Chapter 2: The Cold Truth * January 1942; Chapter 3: The Allies: Partners in Defeat * February1942; Chapter 4: The Good Friday Retreat * March/early April 1942; Chapter 5: The Best 30 Seconds of the War * April 1942; Chapter 6: Harbingers of Good and Ill Fortunes * May 1942; Chapter 7: Turning Point * June-July 1942; Conclusion: Indomitable Will.

"Near the start of this masterful narrative, Charles Kupfer asserts that the key to Franklin Roosevelt's presidential success was an "ability to frame the national discourse through his own rhetorical powers." Professor Kupfer might as well be talking about himself, for Indomitable Will provides a template for how cultural history ought to be written—with a scholar's attention to critical nuance, an anthropologist's insight into national character, a novelist's eye for human detail, and a foolproof ear for American lingo. Ranging freely across disciplines and genres, from military history to media studies, Indomitable Will is a marvelous and persuasive hybrid of a book, a creature as rarely encountered as the unicorn in the forests of American Studies: a work of original scholarship that will inform and entertain a popular audience." -Campbell McGrath, Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing, Florida International University