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020			_a9781541619104
035			_a(OCoLC)1340744247
092			_a940.5343 _bS592
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100	1		_aSimms, Brendan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHitler's American gamble : _bPearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war / _cBrendan Simms and Charlie Laderman.
246	3	0	_aPearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war
250			_aFirst trade paperback edition.
260			_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2023.
300			_axvi, 510 pages : _bmap (black and white) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- 1. Origins: Anglo-American hegemony and its enemies -- 2. The worlds of December 6, 1941 -- 3. Sunday, December 7, 1941 -- 4. Monday, December 8, 1941 -- 5. Tuesday, December 9, 1941 -- 6. Wednesday, December 10, 1941 -- 7. Thursday, December 11, 1941 -- 8. The world of December 12, 1941.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCauses. _927361
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zGermany. _97112
650		0	_aStrategy. _939023
651		0	_aUnited States _xStrategic aspects. _9259197
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zUnited States. _923097
700	1		_aLaderman, Charlie, _eauthor.
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