L'irruption des Etats-Unis dans la Deuxième Guerre mondiale ¦doit-elle être considérée comme une croisade contre la ¦barbarie nazie, la lutte du Bien contre le Mal ? Jacques ¦Pauwels, historien, brise le mythe. A ses yeux, les Américains ¦étaient, en effet, loin d'être inintéres…
What began in 1918 with the church bells of victory and the hopes of Versailles ended a year later with the appearance of Adolf Hitler and the beginnings of his fateful and fatal role.
Examines the view of eight leaders in World War II, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt, and compares their visions of the future if their side had emerged victorious.
"War continues to occur and bewilder, despite the keen attention of scholars, generals, and officials. This book takes account of war - told, interpreted, retold, recast, and enacted - as its focus. It argues that war propagates from "war stories" into plans for the future. The …