Best War Ever America and World War II

Name: Best War Ever America and World War II
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ISBN: 9780801846977

ISBN-10: 0801846978

ISBN-13: 9780801846977

Edition: 1993

Authors: Michael C. C. Adams, Michael C. C. Adams

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Was it really such a "good war"? It was, if popular memory is to be trusted. We knew who the enemy was. We knew what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. It was a war of tanks and airplanes--a cleaner war than World War I. Americans were united. Soldiers were proud. It was a time of prosperity, sound morality, and power. But according to historian Michael Adams, our memory is distorted, and it has left us with a misleading--even dangerous--legacy. Challenging many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues that our experience of World War II was positive but also disturbing, creating problems that continue to plague us today.

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Maps


Editor's Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Mythmaking and the War



No Easy Answers



The Patterns of War, 1939-1945



The American War Machine



Overseas



Home Front Change



A New World


Afterword


Bibliographical Essay


Index