His book Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta and Atlanta Remade Professional Sports is available from the University of Nebraska Press. Todman details, from 1939 to 1941, “British strength determined, for the last time, the future of the world. To understand the complex and precarious position in which Britain found itself in late 1941, the first volume of Daniel Todman’s “Britain’s War” is essential reading. There were many hinge moments in the Second World War: Hitler’s decision to invade Russia in 1941, the Battles of Midway and Stalingrad in 1942 and D-Day in 1944.

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To this list add Brendan Simms’s and Charlie Laderman’s similarly excellent Hitler’s American Gamble. The assumption is that the US was bound to fight Germany from the moment Japan launched its pre-emptive strike.Since we were at war with imperial Japan, the logic would run, we were obliged to be at war with Japan’s Axis ally. com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. The Führer was betting America would not be able to ramp up its war machine and continue to maintain the flow of Lend-Lease materiél, initially to Britain and then to the USSR.

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As the world descended into a “truly global war,” Britain, though still indispensable to the fight against the Axis, was forced to confront its loss of global pre-eminence, not to its enemies, but to its new superpower allies. The coauthors offer a gripping blow-by-blow of the five-day span between Pearl Harbor and Germany’s December 12, 1941, declaration of war on the United States. Most Americans, if asked, would probably say that Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Nazi Germany, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. It ranges across the British Empire and is as attentive to social history and the lives of ordinary people as it is to high politics and grand strategy.Yet the resources on which its population depended to live and its armed forces depended to fight came from distant colonies and, increasingly, the U. Yet none was more pivotal than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which brought the United States into the war and ultimately doomed the Axis powers to defeat. Each for its own reasons, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and Japan eagerly sought Germany’s entry into a shooting war with the United States.

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It didn’t work out that way, in large part because the Allies did a remarkable job of coordinating their efforts while the Axis powers failed at forging a global strategy.Clayton Trutor (11/1/2023) Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War.