Publisher's Synopsis
On December 7, 1941, a skillful Japanese task force launched a devastating, unprovoked and surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet and naval base at Pearl Harbour. The following day the United States declared war on Japan. This attack, and the invasion of Poland by Hitler, were events that reshaped the world and helped propel the United States to supreme global power as the grand allianace of America, Britain, and Russia determined to oust the Axis power of Germany, Italy and Japan: to free nations they had subjugated; and to eliminate their fascist forms of government.;Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of American military strategy, politics, and social history from the end of the Great Depression through the tragedy and heroism of war as America moved to a new position of global dominance. This volume is generously illustrated with over a hundred prints, photographs, and reproductions of the war effort at home and abroad, drawn mainly from the superb collection of the Library of Congress, some very famous, others now in print for the first time.
