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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbour and the German March to Global War

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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbour and the German March to Global War

SKU: 9780241423509 Category: Product ID: 300497

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Title: Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbour and the German March to Global War
Author: SIMMS BRENDAN/LADERMAN CHARLES
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 02/11/2021
Imprint: ALLEN LANE
Price: $55.00
Publishing status: Active

A thrilling account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followed

This 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.

ISBN: 9780241423509
Pages: 304