A Cross of Iron
Subtitle: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 19451954
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780521795371
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; International relations; Military intelligence; Political science & theory; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; United States - 20th Century/50s; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; History / United States / 20th Century; History : Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; Political Science : Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: "How can we prepare for total war," Hanson Baldwin asked in 1947, "without becoming a 'garrison state' and destroying the very qualities and virtues and principles we originally set out to save?"