N/F Citizens of London by Lynne Olson- Amer. MIA in WWII while England Fought Alone

The Citzens of London is a reminder of the atrocities Londeners endured for years during WWII while the ravages of war were a hallow whimper on Amerian shores.  The subcaption for the book reads "The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hours."  A more appropro heading would be, Americans were dawdling & debating while the Brits were waiting & being raided.  Olson is an Amer. journalist & best selling history & biography writer.  There were dedicated American journalists and envoys with clarion voices calling for our country's immediate military & financial support that feel on mainly deaf ears while Britain's very existence hung in the balance during Germany's relentless bombing attacks.  Britian & the U.S. experienced the ravages of war in profoundly different ways, " …one counrtry on the front line, suffering deprivation and hardship; the other thousands of miles away from the battle, its citizens more prosperous than ever."  In addition to an isolationist, laissez faire attitude, "Suspicions, strains, prejudices, and rivalries threatened to derail this new and unparralleled confederation before it took hold."   The images of commraderie between Churchill & Roosevelt leading to the united defeat of the Nazi regime are sovereign.  What has become obtuse are the death & destruction England endured for years before the U.S. entered WWII after Pearl Harbor.  CITIZENS of LONDON pays tribute to the staunch upper lip of the Brits and examines the sad military state of the U.S. in the early forties and its lack of empathy for Europe in the years before we entered WWII.