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'History at its scintillating best ... hard-hitting, revelatory and
superbly researched' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking
with Destiny 'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant
classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University This gripping book
dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period
between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's
declaration of war on the United States. These five days
transformed much of the world and have shaped our own experience
ever since. Simms and Laderman's aim in the book is to show how
this agonizing period had no inevitability about it and that
innumerable outcomes were possible. Key leaders around the world
were taking decisions with often poor and confused information,
under overwhelming pressure and knowing that they could be facing
personal and national disaster. And yet, there were also
long-standing assumptions that shaped these decisions, both
consciously and unconsciously. Hitler's American Gamble is a superb
work of history, both as an explanation for the course taken by the
Second World War and as a study in statecraft and political
choices.
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential
election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump
is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on earth,
Americans and non-Americans alike have been left wondering what
this will mean for the world. It has been claimed that Trump's
foreign policy views are impulsive, inconsistent and that they were
improvised on the campaign trail. However, drawing on interviews
from as far back as 1980, Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms show
that this assumption is dangerously false. They reveal that Trump
has had a consistent position on international trade and America's
alliances since he first considered running for president in the
late 1980s. Furthermore, his foreign policy views have deep roots
in American history. For the new President, almost every
international problem that has confronted the United States can be
explained by the mistakes of its leaders. Yet, after decades of
dismissing America's leaders as fools and denouncing their
diplomacy, Trump must now prove that he can do better.Over the past
three decades, he has been laying out in interviews, articles,
books and tweets what amounts to a foreign policy philosophy. This
book reveals the world view that Trump brings to the Oval Office.
It shows how that world view was formed, what might result if it is
applied in policy terms and the potential consequences for the rest
of the world.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY
2022 'History at its scintillating best ... hard-hitting,
revelatory and superbly researched' Andrew Roberts, author of
Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A rare achievement ... sure to
become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University This
gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and
terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These
five days transformed much of the world and have shaped our own
experience ever since. Simms and Laderman's aim in the book is to
show how this agonizing period had no inevitability about it and
that innumerable outcomes were possible. Key leaders around the
world were taking decisions with often poor and confused
information, under overwhelming pressure and knowing that they
could be facing personal and national disaster. And yet, there were
also long-standing assumptions that shaped these decisions, both
consciously and unconsciously. Hitler's American Gamble is a superb
work of history, both as an explanation for the course taken by the
Second World War and as a study in statecraft and political
choices.
The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was
an unprecedented tragedy. Even amidst the horrors of the First
World War, Theodore Roosevelt insisted that it was the greatest
crime of the conflict. The wartime mass killing of approximately
one million Armenian Christians was the culmination of a series of
massacres that Winston Churchill would later recall had roused
publics on both sides of the Atlantic and inspired fervent appeals
to save the Armenians. Sharing the Burden explains how the Armenian
struggle for survival became so entangled with the debate over the
international role of the United States as it rose to world power
status in the early twentieth century. In doing so, Charlie
Laderman provides a fresh perspective on the role of humanitarian
intervention in US foreign policy, Anglo-American relations, and
the emergence of a new world order after World War I. The United
States' responsibility to protect the Armenians was a central
preoccupation of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Both American and British leaders proposed an Anglo-American
alliance to take joint responsibilities for the Middle East and
envisioned a US intervention to secure an independent Armenia as
key to the new League of Nations. The Armenian question illustrates
how policymakers, missionaries, and the public grappled for the
first time with atrocities on this scale. It also reveals the
values that animated American society during this pivotal period in
the nation's foreign relations. Deepening understanding of the
Anglo-American special relationship and its role in reforming
global order, Sharing the Burden illuminates the possibilities,
limitations, and continued dilemmas of humanitarian intervention in
international politics.
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