Hitler's American Gamble

Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

Hitler's American Gamble
Brendan Simms, Charlie Laderman
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Hardback
h240 x 156mm - 304pg
28 Oct 2021 UK
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9780241423509
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A thrilling account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followedThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler' s declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much of the world and have shaped our own experience ever since. Simms and Laderman' s aim in the book is to show how this agonizing period had no inevitability about it and that innumerable outcomes were possible. Key leaders around the world were taking decisions with often poor and confused information, under overwhelming pressure and knowing that they could be facing personal and national disaster. And yet, there were also long-standing assumptions that shaped these decisions, both consciously and unconsciously. Hitler' s American Gamble is a superb work of history, both as an explanation for the course taken by the Second World War and as a study in statecraft and political choices.
Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. His major books include Unfinest Hour- Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Europe- The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present, and Hitler- Only the World Was Enough. Charlie Laderman is a Lecturer in International History at King' s College London. He is the author of Sharing the Burden- The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order and (with Brendan Simms) Donald Trump- the Making of a Worldview.
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ISBN-13: 9780241423509
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Allen Lane
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 304

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