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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The entire world was at war. Every nation was either desperately doing everything it could to conquer other countries or desperately defending itself from destruc- tion. When you consider all of the industrial might of the United States in a total war involving every person and every industry-after three and a half years not being able to defeat Japan-it brings a startling sense of reality to the war. Most people today in the United States have experienced the country at war (in reality if not by congressional declaration). In recent wars there has always been a step the United States didn’t take. In Korea we could have used atomic bombs against the Chinese; in Vietnam we could have obliterated Hanoi. Political and humanitarian considerations stopped us. But in World War II there were no such considerations. It was all-out war. Hitler would have dropped atomic bombs if he’d had them first. He unleashed rockets on London with the intent of killing as many civilians as possible. The Japanese killed millions of Chinese for sport; the Germans killed millions of Russians to establish the rule of terror and when the onslaught turned on Germany the Russians killed and destroyed everything on the way to Berlin. The entire populations of nearly all countries (except for those of Central and South America and southern Africa) were committed; two thirds of the national production of the major combatants went into the war. It was total war. It was World War unlike the “Great War” of the last generation. (OS)