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03852aam a2200541 i 4500 001 110677E84C2B11ECAC4B6F2A3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211123010027 008 210520s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021016054 020 $a 1541619099 020 $a 9781541619098 035 $a (OCoLC)1241245406 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 082 00 $a 940.53/43 $2 23 100 1 $a Simms, Brendan, $e author. 245 10 $a Hitler's American gamble : $b Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war / $c Brendan Simms, and Charlie Laderman. 246 30 $a Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xvi, 510 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Causes. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Germany. 650 0 $a Strategy. 651 0 $a United States $x Strategic aspects. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z United States. 700 1 $a Laderman, Charlie, $e author. 941 $a 14 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611023345.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015632.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031037.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302020436.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230103010437.0 952 $l YSPD232 $d 20220903011508.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220730010140.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013559.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20220503070405.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220405014012.0 952 $l DYPD423 $d 20220208011156.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220202011351.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20220107011442.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211123010832.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=110677E84C2B11ECAC4B6F2A3AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search