A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608195007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 912 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Slow read, but good overall No question, this book has problems. The old cruiser Olympia was scrapped. Nope, it's still in Philadelphia. The battleship Oregon was scrapped. The liberty ships used steam reciprocating engines, not diesel. After listing some 500 ships sunk by U-boats, he says it totaled 2,000 tons. Typo. 2 million more likely.Still, the story of how we mobilized for this war, warts and all, is a magnificent story of human endeavor of that particular . Monumental; iconic; epochal William Brennan I considered myself an advanced amateur student of World War II. What a joke; until I read this book I knew nothing about how the war was won. Sure, I knew of Rosie the riveter and her counterpart, Ralph. I even had my own victory garden but had no idea how it fit into the overall food production of the war.Did you know that developing the B-29 cost more than the Manhattan Project? Neither did I, but that’s a fact that I won&rsquo. Conan said immersive, enjoyable, enlightening. This is a great read, a great book, a great education. You merely need have a smidgen of interest in anything having to do with WWII to get absorbed in this wonderful book. Within ten pages I couldn't stop reading as the author has a delightful, masterly touch and sprinkles the narrative with all types of informative information. As a measure of how knowledgable he is about the period he is able to summarize Hitler's strategies and acti
Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so,
He is the author of many books, including The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America; and Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. Maury Klein is renowned as one of the finest historians of American business and economy. . He lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island
It paints on a broad canvas, yet simultaneously limns detailed and fascinating miniatures of compelling people and places. Kennedy“Thoroughly researched, objective and authoritative in tone, this is likely to be the definitive work on this topic for years to come.” Kirkus Reviews“A magisterial account. Maury Klein tells the story of the World War II 'production miracle' in all its complexity, contention, and drama. For all the valor of its warriors on land, sea, and air, in the last analysis it was the stupefying productivity of America's behemoth economy that constituted the nation's greatest contribution to victory. In the five wartime years that followed, his countrymen stocked that arsenal with astounding quantities of the instruments of war--even while expanding the civilian sector of the economy as well. History doesn't get much better than this.” David M. Combining a deft understan