Jacques R. Pauwels: The Myth of the Good War : America in the Second World War
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In the spirit of historians Howard Zinn, Gwynne Dyer, and Noam Chomsky, Jacques Pauwels focuses on the big picture. Like them, he seeks to find the real reasons for the actions of great powers and great leaders. Familiar Second World War figures from Adolf Hitler to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin are portrayed in a new light in this book. The decisions of Hitler and his Nazi government to go to war were not those of madmen. Britain and the US were not allies fighting shoulder to shoulder with no motive except ridding the world of the evils of Nazism. In Pauwels'account, the actions of the United States during the war years were heavily influenced by American corporations - IBM, GM, Ford, ITT, and Standard Oil of New Jersey (now called Exxon) - who were having a very profitable war selling oil, armaments, and equipment to both sides, with money gushing everywhere. Rather than analyzing Pearl Harbour as an unprovoked attack, Pauwels notes that US generals boasted of their success in goading Japan into a war the Americans badly wanted. One chilling account describes why President Truman insisted on using nuclear bombs against Japan when there was no military need to do so. Another reveals that Churchill instructed his bombers to flatten Dresden and kill thousands when the war was already won, to demonstrate British American strength to Stalin. Leaders, usually cast in a heroic mould in other books about this war, look quite different here. Nations that claimed a higher purpose in going to war are shown here to have had far less idealistic motives. The Second World War, as Jacques Pauwels tells it, was a good war only in myth. The reality is far messier - and far more revealing of the evils that come from conflicts between great powers and great leaders seeking to enrich their countries and dominate the world. JACQUES R. PAUWELS is an independent scholar who has a special interest
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Author: Jacques R. Pauwels
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 03 May 2016
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company Ltd
Publication Country: Toronto, Canada
Language: English
ISBN: 9781459408722
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