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The United States and the Second World War : new perspectives on diplomacy, war, and the home front /

In this book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading United States to enter World War II, the role of t...

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Group Author: Piehler, G. Kurt; Pash, Sidney
Published:
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: World War II, the global, human, and ethical dimension
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > United States
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, American
World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States
United States > Foreign relations > 1933-1945
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
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Summary: In this book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war time planning for the postwar world, but also tackle new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. These outsta
Carrier Form: xii, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780823231201 (cloth : alk. paper) :
0823231208 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: D769
CLC: K712.53
Call Number: K712.53/U581
Contents: Roosevelt at the Rubicon : the great convoy debate of 1941 / J. Garry Clifford and Robert H. Ferrell -- Containment, rollback, and the onset of the Pacific War, 1933-1941 / Sidney Pash -- "In terms of peoples rather than nations" : World War II propaganda and conceptions of U.S. foreign policy / Justin Hart -- Allotment Annies and other wayward wives : wartime concerns about female disloyalty and the problem of the returned veteran / Ann Pfau -- General George S. Patton and the war-winning Sherman tank myth / Nicholas D. Molnar -- Naval gunfire support in Operation Neptune : a reexamination

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