Mighty Endeavor

The American Nation and World War II

Blaine T. Browne

How World War II changed America and the World

In Mighty Endeavor: The American Nation and the Second World War historian Blaine Browne provides a highly readable introduction to the war’s military course and its domestic consequences. World War II represented a major transformative event for America, laying the foundations for a modern postwar superpower. Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, military, economic, and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years. Each chapter features opening and closing biographies of individuals, some famous, some forgotten, who helped shape the war effort. The profiles represent a wide variety of Americans, civilian and military, men and women, and representing diverse races and ethnicities. Readers who recall the war years to those students studying it for the first time will find The Mighty Endeavor a superb gateway to a pivotal period of American and world history.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 312 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-5381-1490-2 • Hardback • October 2019 • $38.00 • (£24.95)

978-1-5381-1491-9 • eBook • October 2019 • $36.00 • (£24.95)

Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century, History / Military / World War II

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The American Nation and World War II

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How World War II changed America and the World

In Mighty Endeavor: The American Nation and the Second World War historian Blaine Browne provides a highly readable introduction to the war’s military course and its domestic consequences. World War II represented a major transformative event for America, laying the foundations for a modern postwar superpower. Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, military, economic, and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years. Each chapter features opening and closing biographies of individuals, some famous, some forgotten, who helped shape the war effort. The profiles represent a wide variety of Americans, civilian and military, men and women, and representing diverse races and ethnicities. Readers who recall the war years to those students studying it for the first time will find The Mighty Endeavor a superb gateway to a pivotal period of American and world history.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 312 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-5381-1490-2 • Hardback • October 2019 • $38.00 • (£24.95)

978-1-5381-1491-9 • eBook • October 2019 • $36.00 • (£24.95)

Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century, History / Military / World War II

Author

Blaine T. Browne is Emeritus Professor at Broward College and is the author of numerous articles and books including Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History, Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History, and Uncertain Order: The World in the Twentieth Century. He is coauthor with Robert C. Cottrell of 1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution (2018). He presently teaches at Oklahoma City University.

Mighty Endeavor

The American Nation and World War II

Blaine T. Browne

Mighty Endeavor

The American Nation and World War II

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