The United States and the Second World War [electronic resource] : new perspectives on diplomacy, war, and the home front / edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Piehler, G. Kurt
Pash, Sidney
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010
Edition:1st ed.
Series:World War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension
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Variant Title:
The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front
Format: Electronic eBook
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 / Barbara Brooks Tomblin
  • Veterans tell their stories and why historians and others listened / G. Kurt Piehler
  • Semper paratus : the U.S. Coast Guard's Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach / Mark A. Snell
  • American pacifism, the "greatest generation," and World War II / Scott H. Bennett
  • 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 / Yutaka Sasaki
  • Hiroshima and the U.S. peace movement : commemoration of August 6, 1948-1960 / Rieko Asai.