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THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD WAR II
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"As the war was a total war, [the historian] is called upon to be a total historian, to master and explain and synthesize the political and the diplomatic, the military, the economic, the social, the scientific conduct of the war. He is required to weave together into a coherent pattern the complex and tangled strands of war on three continents, on a dozen major fronts, in the air and on the sea. He must shuttle back and forth from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and to the North Sea—and with no allowance for miscalculations. He must keep in mind, and synchronize—as the High Command never did —events in North Africa, Burma, Britain and the Pacific islands, the Russian front, the North African front, the Italian front, the Normandy front, the bombing over a hundred cities and the resistance movements of a dozen occupied countries. He must unravel domestic politics and seek to understand the... Tovább

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THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD WAR II
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"As the war was a total war, [the historian] is called upon to be a total historian, to master and explain and synthesize the political and the diplomatic, the military, the economic, the social, the scientific conduct of the war. He is required to weave together into a coherent pattern the complex and tangled strands of war on three continents, on a dozen major fronts, in the air and on the sea. He must shuttle back and forth from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and to the North Sea—and with no allowance for miscalculations. He must keep in mind, and synchronize—as the High Command never did —events in North Africa, Burma, Britain and the Pacific islands, the Russian front, the North African front, the Italian front, the Normandy front, the bombing over a hundred cities and the resistance movements of a dozen occupied countries. He must unravel domestic politics and seek to understand the politics of allies and of enemies as well. He must penetrate—something neither Churchill nor Roosevelt could ever quite do—behind the Iron Curtain to the mysteries of Russian policy and the facts of Russian warfare. He must somehow fit into all of this whatever is relevant of the conduct of the war by Germany, Italy and Japan.
"It is a tribute to Professor Buchanan that he has faced these and many other problems with equanimity, approached them systematically, and somehow brought order of what appears to be chaos. It is sobering to reflect how few historical scholars have been bold enough to undertake a historical synthesis as ambitious and as exacting as this. . . . Professor Buchanan has mastered this vast mass of material, whipped it into shape with military efficiency, and given us a synthesis both original and compelling. That is a notable achievement."
—HENRY STEELE coMMAGER and RICHARD B. MORRIS, in the Editors' Introduction
Contents Volume I i: The Coming of World War II—Europe, ii: The Coming of World War II—The Far East, iii: War Plans and the Start of the War in the Pacific, iv: Japanese Conquest of the Phihppines. v: The War in the Atlantic, vi: Democracy's Arsenal, vii: North Africa, viii: Sicily and Italy. IX: Strategic Air Warfare, x: The Pacific War: Plans and Objectives, xi: Guadalcanal and Papua, xii: The Pacific War—1943. xiii: The Pacific War, November, 1943-May, 1944.
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