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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 - The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor (Paperback)
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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 - The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor (Paperback)
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In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated
World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress
and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000
men--unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to
Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl
Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa,
beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and
Marines were fully engaged with Japan in the Pacific.The story of
America's astounding industrial mobilization during World War II
has been told. But what has never been chronicled before Paul
Dickson's The Rise of the G. I. Army, 1940-1941 is the
extraordinary transformation of America's military from a disparate
collection of camps with dilapidated equipment into a well-trained
and spirited army ten times its prior size in little more than
eighteen months. From Franklin Roosevelt's selection of George C.
Marshall to be Army Chief of Staff to the remarkable peace-time
draft of 1940 and the massive and unprecedented mock battles in
Tennessee, Louisiana, and the Carolinas by which the skill and
spirit of the Army were forged and out of which iconic leaders like
Eisenhower, Bradley, and Clark emerged; Dickson narrates America's
urgent mobilization against a backdrop of political and cultural
isolationist resistance and racial tension at home, and the
increasingly perceived threat of attack from both Germany and
Japan. An important addition to American history, The Rise of the
G. I. Army, 1940-1941 is essential to our understanding of
America's involvement in World War II.
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