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

Other author/creatorPiehler, G. Kurt.
Other author/creatorPash, Sidney.
Format Electronic and Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionxii, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from UPCC Books History 2010 Subject Collection
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series World War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009014588
ISBN9780823231201 (cloth : alk. paper)

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