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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: 940.53
Author: Simms, Brendan AND Laderman, Charlie
Title: Hitler's American gamble
Remainder of title: Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war /
Summary, etc. note: "By early December 1941, war and genocide had changed Europe beyond recognition. Nazi Germany had occupied most of the continent and opened concentration camps, while millions of soldiers had died on the front. In Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned mainland China into a battleground and the Pacific Islands into an armed camp. Still, these far-off conflicts were not yet inextricably linked, and the greatest power the world had yet seen, the United States, was at peace. Hitler's American Gamble explores the five critical days that changed everything: December 7th-11th, from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor to Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. Historians have conventionally believed that Japan's pre-emptive strike led inexorably to the German-U.S. war and the outbreak of a truly global conflict. Tracing diplomatic and strategic developments in real time, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman reveal how in fact an American declaration of war against Germany was far from inevitable. Roosevelt faced a Congress and country unwilling to break with the isolationism it had embraced at the end of World War I. The outbreak of an expensive Pacific war with Japan on December 7th failed to convince many Americans that the nation should also intervene in Europe, despite the fervent hopes of Allied leaders and the Roosevelt administration. Only with Hitler's intervention on December 11th was the United States irrevocably roped into war with Germany. This was not the foolhardy decision of a man so bloodthirsty he forgot all sense of strategy, but a decision Hitler took rationally and a gamble that made sense for Germany, even as it expanded its theatre of war. Backed by deep archival research, Hitler's American Gamble revises our understanding of World War II, uncovering the rationale behind Hitler's greatest strategic error and offering a new perspective on America's rise to global power"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781541619098
: (hardcover)
: (ebook)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9781541619081
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: e-gx---
Geographic area code: n-us---
Classification number: D742.G4
Item number: S56 2021
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 940.53/43
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Brendan Simms, and Charlie Laderman.
Title proper/short title: Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war
Edition statement: First edition
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Hachette Books
Date of publication: 2021
Projected publication date: 2111
: New York :
: Basic Books,
: 2021.
Extent: 402 pages
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: txt
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: unmediated
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: volume
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: Donated by Andrew Feniman
Purchase price: 35.00
Subject: World War, 1939-1945
Subject: Strategy
Subject: Nazi Germany
General subdivision: Causes.
Geographic subdivision: Germany.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic name: United States
General subdivision: Strategic aspects.
Personal name: Laderman, Charlie,
Relator term: author.
: acquire
: 1 shelf copy
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