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Presentation Copy of D-Day Prayer. By President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6, 1944. ...
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D-Day Prayer Signed and Inscribed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to His Granddaughter
Presentation Copy of D-Day Prayer. By
President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6,
1944. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944.
Limited Edition of one hundred copies, of which this is number 83.
Presentation copy inscribed by President Roosevelt to his
granddaughter, "For Sisty on her 18th birthday with love from
her grandest father 'Papa' / Franklin Roosevelt." Slim 4to. [4]
pages. Vellum-backed marbled paper boards. Gilt-stamped dark blue
leather spine label. Top edge gilt. In original slipcase.Roosevelt's famous D-Day Prayer was originally entitled "Let Our Hearts Be Stout," and was read to the nation over the radio on the evening of the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944, while American, British, and Canadian troops were fighting to establish beachheads on the coast of Normandy in France. The previous night, June 5, the President had also been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered Rome. The spectacular news that Rome had been liberated was quickly surpassed by news of the gigantic D-Day invasion, which began at 6:30 a.m. on June 6. By midnight about 57,000 American and 75,000 British and Canadian soldiers had gotten ashore. Allied losses on D-Day included 2,500 killed and 8,500 wounded.
This was the last wartime White House Christmas book. These specially bound copies were given as gifts exclusively to the President's closest friends, family, and select Cabinet members and are rarely encountered, with only a few other inscribed copies found offered for auction in the past forty years.
Condition: Spine foxed, corners rubbed. Pastedowns lightly toned. Otherwise, fine.
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