{"product_id":"the-united-states-and-the-second-world-war-new-perspectives-on-diplomacy-war-and-the-home-front-paperback","title":"The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. Kurt Piehler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSidney Pash\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world, but also tackle new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war-the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese outstanding historians cover crucial moments such as: \u003cbr\u003eFranklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal, if at times indecisive, role in leading the United States\u003cbr\u003eThe miscalculation of Japanese intentions by American diplomats and the failure of deterrence in preventing war in the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eThe experiences and contributions of conscientious objectors to American society in this time of total war\u003cbr\u003eThe decision of the United States to fight with an ineffective battle tank at the expense of American lives\u003cbr\u003eThe Coast Guard's contribution to the D-Day Landing\u003cbr\u003eHow elite foreign policy organizations prior to V-J Day sought to influence American occupation policies regarding Japan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith these essays and much more, \u003ci\u003eThe United States in the Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to prove a classic to World War II buffs.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. Kurt Piehler is author of\u003ci\u003e Remembering War the American Way\u003c\/i\u003e (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995; reprint ed., 2004), author of \u003ci\u003eWorld War II \u003c\/i\u003e(American Soldiers' Lives Series, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007), and co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Major Problems in American Military History \u003c\/i\u003e(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999). He is consulting editor for the \u003ci\u003eOxford Companion to American Military History \u003c\/i\u003e(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) and associate editor of \u003ci\u003eAmericans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront \u003c\/i\u003e(New York: Macmillan Reference\/Gale, 2005). His articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eHistory of Education Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Rutgers University Libraries\u003c\/i\u003e, and the anthology \u003ci\u003eCommemorations: The Politics of National Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994). As founding director (1994-98) of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, Piehler conducted more than 200 interviews with veterans of this conflict. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSidney Pash is an assistant professor of history at Fayetteville State University, where he teaches courses in U.S., world, and East Asian history. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 from Rutgers University, where he specialized in interwar U.S.-Japanese diplomatic relations. His most recent works have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the North Carolina Association of Historians\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New England Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e, and in Jose´ de Arimate´ia da Cruz, Becky K. da Cruz, and Andrew J. Dowdle, eds., \u003ci\u003eAmerican Politics: Transformation and Change \u003c\/i\u003e(Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2004).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756067643725,"sku":"9780823252039","price":80.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/csa5KRFGqW9780823252039.webp?v=1776722016","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-united-states-and-the-second-world-war-new-perspectives-on-diplomacy-war-and-the-home-front-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}