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Chapter Three: The Patterns of War, Chapter 4: The American War Machine. Chapter Five: Overseas. Chapter Six: Home Front Change. Chapter Seven: A New World. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 22, Kyle Federo rated it did not like it. This book is full of factual errors, false analogies, and specious arguments.
I can't believe the book was even published, never mind assigned by history teachers in schools. My fear is that not only the young students, but even today's history teachers don't know enough about world war two to spot the glaring errors in this book. I don't mind someone writing a book that attempts to highlight the mistakes made by our country in world war two. There were plenty of them. However the author ignores This book is full of factual errors, false analogies, and specious arguments.
However the author ignores all the obvious ones Halsey's typhoons, Slapton Sands, the non rescue of the Indianapolis survivors, etc. I assume because he doesn't know any better. Instead he makes specious arguments out of his own "facts". One quick example. He writes, "Reinhard Heydrich whose crimes included the murder of the citizens of Lidice". The facts are that Lidice was destroyed after Heydrich was already dead.
It was destroyed in retribution for his death. How can a book be taken seriously when it contains such weak scholarship? You can't go more than a few pages without coming across something that is either factually wrong, or a revisionist argument based on faulty logic.
I think it is sad that what is no more than a poorly written term paper is now presented as history. It is even sadder that it is assigned reading to our young people.
View 2 comments. Jan 11, William Shep rated it did not like it. Should be titled 'The Worst Book Ever. View 1 comment. Feb 12, Rachel rated it liked it Shelves: academic-books , us-history. Adams' book is geared toward dismantling the myth of World War II that was generated during the end of the 20th century--especially exemplified in the writings of Stephen Ambrose and journalism of Tom Brokaw.
The idea of this myth is that the generation that lived through World War II was the greatest generation and that WWII was a just war in which Americans saved the day--alone and virtuously. Each of Adams' chapters takes a common portion of this myth and breaks it down from the causes of the Adams' book is geared toward dismantling the myth of World War II that was generated during the end of the 20th century--especially exemplified in the writings of Stephen Ambrose and journalism of Tom Brokaw.
Each of Adams' chapters takes a common portion of this myth and breaks it down from the causes of the war it was totally preventable and appeasement is always wrong to American conduct overseas to the idea that the country was unified and had no problems with race to It feels, at times, that Adams is arguing with a straw man--though my perception of this is undoubtedly colored by having studied US history in graduate school. In his defense I will say that the particularly rosy view of WWII is one that I sort of remember absorbing as a child in the s--certainly its glorification and the emphasis on the Western European front that were dominant then stand out to me.
Its a work of synthesis--so don't come looking for original research here. In general, lots of background knowledge is assumed. That being said, I read in the context of its use for a survey of post history, and students seem to be engaging with it.
So, it is potentially useful pedagogically. Jan 17, Michael Burnam-Fink rated it it was ok Shelves: history , If you look for 'revisionist history' in the dictionary, you'll probably find this book.
Adams goes at great length to penetrate the mystique of WW2, showing it as an ugly conflict where the average soldier lived in total terror, not knowing what he fought for, that made only half-hearted steps towards integrating American society, and helped destroy the social fabric of rural America.
All of this may be true, and it serves as a nice counter-balance to the usual hagiographies, but as a whole thi If you look for 'revisionist history' in the dictionary, you'll probably find this book. All of this may be true, and it serves as a nice counter-balance to the usual hagiographies, but as a whole this book exaggerates, elides, and is totally American centric.
The home front stuff was alright for social history, but you might as well go to the way better primary source for the battles and read Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed. Aug 29, B. I was prepared to dislike this book because of the romanticized title "best" war ever? Within the first page or two, I realized that the book was using this title ironically, and that its mission was to poke holes in the fairytales and myths of World War II.
The author does this by providing first-hand accounts of those who lived it and by giving statistics and other information that helps cl I was prepared to dislike this book because of the romanticized title "best" war ever? The author does this by providing first-hand accounts of those who lived it and by giving statistics and other information that helps clear out the glassy-eyed patriotism when looking back at this era, and instead look at it more with a level head.
Feb 12, Simon Purdue rated it really liked it. Adams argues that in fact WWII was a dirty and violent war, not fought between the caricatures presented by John Wayne and his cold, heel-clicking Nazi opponents, but by real people on both sides who were deeply flawed and were deeply impacted by their time on the frontlines.
In preparing this must-read new edition, Adams has consulted some seventy additional sources on topics as varied as the origins of Social Security and a national health system, the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the relationship of traumatic brain injuries to the adjustment problems of veterans. The revised book also incorporates substantial developments that have occurred in our understanding of the course and character of the war, particularly in terms of the human consequences of fighting.
In a new chapter, "The Life Cycle of a Myth," Adams charts image-making about the war from its inception to the present. He 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.
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