The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421416670 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War and The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I.. Michael C. Adams is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at Northern Kentucky University. C
One of the best books on America's experience in WWII One of the best books on America's experience in WWII. He shows that most of the problems we have today (name almost anything) goes back to how we fought the war. More especially he shows that we did not stop fighting the War. The US did an excellent job fighting WWII (w/ the exceptions of updating our basic tank and fighting/stopping racial problems/relations) and for the most part we came together as a nation and defeated a terrible. AZ Dry Humor said at that time came to believe the United States pretty much single handedly won the war. I developed my interest in history as a teenager reading World War Two history and at that time came to believe the United States pretty much single handedly won the war. My studies in history have since broadened, especially after visiting Japan in the late sixties and watching a Japanese movie about World War Two. From that movie I took an interest in finding books that give accounts from "the other side" and did not glorify the his. Jose Manuel Yanez said Five Stars. Just what i need !
Adams also exposes the myth that the home front was fully united behind the war effort, demonstrating how class, race, gender, and age divisions split Americans. It was liberating for women. Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, shell-shocked soldiers grappled with emotional and physical trauma, rigorously enforced segregation, and rampant venereal disease.In preparing this must-read new edition, Adams has consulted some seventy additional sources on topics as varied as the origins of Social Security and a national health system, the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the relationship of traumatic brain injuries to the adjustment problems of veterans. C. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war than World War I. But according to historian Michael C. Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. The war was good for the economy. Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and
Surrounding the war with an aura of nostalgia both fosters the delusion that war can cure our social ills and makes us strong again, and weakens confidence in our ability to act effectively in our own time. (Reviews in American History)Not only is this mythologizing bad history, says Adams, it is dangerous as well. (Journal of Military History) . Adams uses his demythologizing lens to provide a rich overview of American involvement in the war He has a real gift for efficiently explaining complex historical problems