Joseph E. Persico is the author of ROOSEVELT'S SECRET WAR: FDR and World War II Espionage; ELEVENTH MONTH, ELEVENTH DAY, ELEVENTH HOUR: Armistice Day, 1918–World War I and Its Violent Climax; PIERCING THE REICH; and NUREMBERG: Infamy on Trial, which was made into a television docudrama. He also collaborated with Colin Powell on his autobiography, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY. He lives in Guilderland, New York.

Books by Joseph E. Persico

Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II

by Joseph E. Persico - History, Nonfiction

All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In ROOSEVELT'S CENTURIONS, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.