Eric Rauchway. The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 336 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-04969-1.
Reviewed by Andrew Baker (Auburn University) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Stephan Lehnstedt. Occupation in the East: The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944. New York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016. 306 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-323-1.
Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (ACSC) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51501
Allan Kent Powell, ed. Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Illustrations. x + 421 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60781-510-5.
Reviewed by Michael Van Wagenen (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
I am always intrigued by discussions like this one. On one hand, you have the individuals plain publicly spoken words; on the other you have the never-ending desire of historians, various news hounds, and other experts to uncover what individuals "really meant" - the hidden thoughts and secret meanings presumably buried in the id or deep subconscious.
Prof Kuehn,
Regards your May 2018 Hand grenade
The issue of the Alperovitz and other Hiroshima revisionists ignoring Ultra and other matters counter to their thesis is very much an issue of "arguing with drunks and religious fanatics."
Hiroshima revisionists don't want to hear or consider contrary data because of identity issue ideological conditioning.
This is a quick thumbnail Historical Background to the rise of “Atomic Diplomacy” prior to Alperovitz, via one of my posts to the Chicagoboyz web log [1] --
Eric Rauchway. The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 336 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-04969-1.
Reviewed by Andrew Baker (Auburn University) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Stephan Lehnstedt. Occupation in the East: The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944. New York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016. 306 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-323-1.
Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (ACSC) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51501
Allan Kent Powell, ed. Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Illustrations. x + 421 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60781-510-5.
Reviewed by Michael Van Wagenen (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Thomas W. Cutrer. Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 608 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3156-1.M. Jane Johansson, ed. Albert C. Ellithorpe, the First Indian Home Guards, and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. 280 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-6358-0.
R. Costello. Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. xiv + 216 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78138-018-5; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78138-019-2.
Reviewed by Paul Brenard Chiudza Banda (University of West Virginia) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
