Nazis and Good Neighbors
Subtitle: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521675352
Subjects: American history: Second World War; Battles & campaigns; History of specific subjects; Second World War, 1939-1945; United States - 20th Century; History: American; History; History - U.S.; Latin America; USA; United States - 20th Century/WWII; Latin America - General; Military - World War II; History / United States / 20th Century
First sentence: Washington, September 1941. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, determined to coax a reluctant public into a necessary war for a just cause, takes to the airwaves to warn Americans that "Hitler's advance guards" are readying "footholds, bridgeheads in the New World, to be used as soon as he has gained control of the oceans.