The United States and the Second World War
Subtitle: new perspectives on diplomacy, war, and the home front
By: edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash.
Contributors: Piehler, G. Kurt.; Pash, Sidney.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: World War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780823231201
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roosevelt at the Rubicon : the great convoy debate of 1941 / J. Garry Clifford and Robert H. Ferrell; title: Containment, rollback, and the onset of the Pacific War, 1933-1941 / Sidney Pash; title: "In terms of peoples rather than nations" : World War II propaganda and conceptions of U.S. foreign policy / Justin Hart; title: Allotment Annies and other wayward wives : wartime concerns about female disloyalty and the problem of the returned veteran / Ann Pfau; title: General George S. Patton and the war-winning Sherman tank myth / Nicholas D. Molnar; title: Naval gunfire support in Operation Neptune : a reexamination / Barbara Brooks Tomblin; title: Veterans tell their stories and why historians and others listened / G. Kurt Piehler; title: Semper paratus : the U.S. Coast Guard's Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach / Mark A. Snell; title: American pacifism, the "greatest generation," and World War II / Scott H. Bennett; title: 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; title: Hiroshima and the U.S. peace movement : commemoration of August 6, 1948-1960 / Rieko Asai.