The American People in World War II
Subtitle: Freedom from Fear, Part Two (The Oxford History of the United States, V. 9)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 3, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780195168938
First sentence: While German dive-bombers screamed over Warsaw and German tanks crunched through the stubble of the freshly harvested grain fields in Polish Silesia, the world briefly and vainly held its breath, hoping against all reason that the war that had come at last might somehow not really have come at all.