The United States and the Second World War : : New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front /

The United States and the Second World War : : New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front / / ed. by Sidney Pash, G. Kurt Piehler.

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In this compelling 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 the United States to enter World War II...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Asai, Rieko,
Bennett, Scott H.,
Clifford, J. Garry,
Ferrell, Robert H.,
Hart, Justin,
Molnar, Nicholas D.,
Pash, Sidney,
Pfau, Ann,
Piehler, G. Kurt,
Sasaki, Yutaka,
Snell, Mark A.,
Tomblin, Barbara Brooks,
HerausgeberIn:
Pash, Sidney,
Piehler, G. Kurt,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Roosevelt at the Rubicon: The Great Convoy Debate of 19
  • 2. Containment, Rollback, and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1933–1941
  • 3. ‘‘In Terms of Peoples Rather Than Nations’’: World War II Propaganda and Conceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • 4. Allotment Annies and Other Wayward Wives: Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the Returned Veteran
  • 5. General George S. Patton and the War-Winning Sherman Tank My
  • 6. Naval Gunfire Support in Operation Neptune: A Reexamination
  • 7. Veterans Tell Their Stories and Why Historians and Others Listened
  • 8. Semper Paratus: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach
  • 9. American Pacifism, the ‘‘Greatest Generation,’’ and World War II
  • 10. Foreign Policy Experts as Service Intellectuals: The American Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Planning the Occupation of Japan During World War II
  • 11. Hiroshima and the U.S. Peace Movement: Commemoration of August 6, 1948–1960
  • Contributors
  • Index

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