Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher:
Using the Selective Service Act of 1940 as a focus to illuminate the evolution of American policy and attitudes toward the Second World War, The First Peacetime
Language: en
Pages: 583
Pages: 583
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-07 - Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
“A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort [with] deep research and gripping writing.” —Washington Times In The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–
Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-17 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, tra
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001 In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment ca
Language: en
Pages: 792
Pages: 792
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-11 - Publisher: CreateSpace
For the United States, full involvement in World War II began and ended in the Pacific Ocean. Although the accepted grand strategy of the war was the defeat of