A call to arms : mobilizing America for World War II / Maury Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Maury, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial mobilization--United States--History--20th century.

Industrial mobilization.

Armed Forces.

History.

United States--Armed Forces--Mobilization--History--20th century.

United States.

World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 897 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

Summary:

A fast-paced history of the organization of American institutional, economic, military, and governmental might for WWII and how this titanic effort determined the outcome of the war and transformed the American economy and society.

"The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents-and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better trained soldiers, better weapons, better tanks and aircraft. But they could not match American productivity. America buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry, and American workers, won World War II. The scale of effort was titanic, and the result historic. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The unluckiest generation

The world unraveling

again

1940 : the year of denial

1941 : the year of turmoil

1942 : the year of despair

1943 : the year of production

1944 : the year of hope

1945 : the year of triumph

The payoff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 853-866) and index.

ISBN:

9781596916074

1596916079

OCLC:

811597616

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