The Best War Ever Av Michael C. C. (regents Professor Of History Emeritus Northern Kentucky University) Adams

The most readable¿and searingly honest¿short book ever written on this pivotal conflict.Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war than World War I. Although we did not seek the conflict¿or so we believed¿Americans nevertheless rallied in support of the war effort, and the nation''s soldiers, all twelve million of them, were proud to fight. But according to historian Michael C. C. Adams, our memory of the war era as a golden age is distorted. It has left us with a misleading¿even dangerous¿legacy, one enhanced by the nostalgia-tinged retrospectives of Stephen E. Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Disputing many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues in The Best War Ever that our celebratory e

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