Description
Book SynopsisHe contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that result from distorting the past, including the dangerous idea that only through (perpetual) military conflict can we achieve lasting peace.
Trade ReviewThe Best War Ever plays a pivotal role in historical research considering its purpose to dispel the mythology surrounding the war. Adams peels back the layers of romanticization in literature and film to reveal the truth about armed conflict . . .
The Best War Ever provides an ideal middle ground in depicting the realities of war, and will serve scholars of this period as well as undergraduate and graduate students in contextualizing this significant marker of time more accurately, with less emotion.
—Cameron McCoy, Brigham Young University,
H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
1. No Easy Answers
2. The Patterns of War, 1939–1945
3. The American War Machine
4. Overseas
5. Home Front Change
6. The World Created by War
7. The Life Cycle of a Myth
Afterword
References
Index
