Crash course : from the good war to the forever war /

Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told, that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:War culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • The last victory?
  • The bombs bursting in air, or, How we lost World War II
  • New connections
  • Working for communists during the Korean War
  • On the water front
  • Thirteen confessions of a Cold Warrior
  • Wake-up time
  • Burning illusions
  • French connections
  • Coming home
  • The war comes home.