1941 : fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war

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Label

1941 : fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war

Title remainder

fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war

Statement of responsibility

Marc Wortman

Title variation

• Nineteen forty-one
• Fighting the shadow war

Creator

• Wortman, Marc, (Marc Josef)

Subject

• Nineteen forty-one, A.D
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
• Foreign correspondents
• United States -- Military relations
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• World War, 1939-1945
• United States -- History -- 1933-1945

Language

eng

Summary

"Historian Marc Wortman ... explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's beleaguered new Prime Minister, pleaded with Franklin D. Roosevelt for help. FDR concocted ingenious ways to come to his aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts.... FDR also had to contend with growing isolationism and anti-Semitism as he tried to influence public opinion.... While Americans were sympathetic to those being crushed under Axis power, they were unwilling to enter a foreign war.... Combining military and political history, Wortman tells the eye-opening story of how FDR took the country to war."--Jacket flaps

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

973.917

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D769.1

LC item number

.W67 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography