The Myth of the Good War America in the Second World War 1st Edition by Jacques R Pauwels ISBN 9781459408722 1459408721

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Author: Jacques R. Pauwels

Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusading struggle to conquer the dark forces of German fascism and Japanese militarism? Was it an unequivocally “good” war?

Historian Jacques Pauwels questions this orthodox view of America’s participation in World War Two. In his view, the United States was not the disinterested champion of democracy in the face of dictatorship: its role in the war was determined, rather, by the interests of its corporations and of its social, economic and political elites. His analysis explicitly addresses many of the myths that have since been fostered about the U.S. decision to enter the war alongside the Soviet Union, the U.K. and Canada, and against Nazi Germany.

The Myth of the Good War offers a fresh and provocative look at the role of the USA in World War Two. It spent four months on the nonfiction bestseller lists in Europe in 2000, and has since been translated into German, Spanish and French.

Table of contents:

 Chapter 1 – Introduction: America and the Myth of the “Great Crusade”
Chapter 2 – The American Power Elite and Fascism
Chapter 3 – America and the Red Peril
Chapter 4 – The War in Europe and America’s Economic Interests
Chapter 5 – Fall 1941: The Tide of War Turns in Front of Moscow
Chapter 6 – The United States at War with Japan and Germany
Chapter 7 – Class Warfare on the American Home Front
Chapter 8 – A Second Front for Stalin, or a Third Front in the Air?
Chapter 9 – Stalin’s Soviet Union: An Unloved but Useful Partner
Chapter 10 – The Liberation of Italy: A Fateful Precedent
Chapter 11 – The Long Summer of 1944
Chapter 12 – The Successes of the Red Army and the Yalta Agreements
Chapter 13 – Dresden: A Signal for Uncle Joe
Chapter 14 – From Roosevelt’s “Soft Line” to Truman’s “Hard Line” toward Stalin
Chapter 15 – An Anti-Soviet Crusade?
Chapter 16 – The Winding Road to the German Surrender(s)
Chapter 17 – America Between Confidence and Concern
Chapter 18 – Nuclear Diplomacy and the Onset of the Cold War
Chapter 19 – A Useful New Enemy
Chapter 20 – Corporate Collaboration and the So-called “De-Nazification” of Germany (1)
Chapter 21 – Corporate Collaboration and the So-called “De-Nazification” of Germany (2)
Chapter 22 – The United States, the Soviets, and the Post-war Fate of Germany
Chapter 23 – After 1945: From the Good War to Permanent War

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