| The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front Contributor(s): Piehler, G. Kurt (Editor), Pash, Sidney (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823231208 ISBN-13: 9780823231201 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - United States - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 940.537 |
| LCCN: 2009014588 |
| Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.4" W x 9" (1.55 lbs) 356 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world, but also tackle new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war-the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world, but also tackle new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war-the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. These outstanding historians cover crucial moments such as: Franklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal, if at times indecisive, role in leading the United StatesThe miscalculation of Japanese intentions by American diplomats and the failure of deterrence in preventing war in the PacificThe experiences and contributions of conscientious objectors to American society in this time of total warThe decision of the United States to fight with an ineffective battle tank at the expense of American livesThe Coast Guard's contribution to the D-Day LandingHow elite foreign policy organizations prior to V-J Day sought to influence American occupation policies regarding Japan With these essays and much more, The United States in the Second World War is sure to prove a classic to World War II buffs. |
Contributor Bio(s): Piehler, G. Kurt: - G. Kurt Piehler is author of Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995; reprint ed., 2004), author of World War II (American Soldiers' Lives Series, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007), and co-editor of Major Problems in American Military History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999). He is consulting editor for the Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) and associate editor of Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (New York: Macmillan Reference/Gale, 2005). His articles have appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, and the anthology Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994). As founding director (1994-98) of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, Piehler conducted more than 200 interviews with veterans of this conflict.Pash, Sidney: - Sidney Pash is an assistant professor of history at Fayetteville State University, where he teaches courses in U.S., world, and East Asian history. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 from Rutgers University, where he specialized in interwar U.S.-Japanese diplomatic relations. His most recent works have appeared in the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians, The New England Journal of History, and in JoseŽ de ArimateŽia da Cruz, Becky K. da Cruz, and Andrew J. Dowdle, eds., American Politics: Transformation and Change (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2004). |