Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Roosevelt at the Rubicon: The Great Convoy Debate of 19 10
6. 2. Containment, Rollback, and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1933–1941 38
7. 3. ‘‘In Terms of Peoples Rather Than Nations’’: World War II Propaganda and Conceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy 68
8. 4. Allotment Annies and Other Wayward Wives: Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the Returned Veteran 99
9. 5. General George S. Patton and the War-Winning Sherman Tank My 129
10. 6. Naval Gunfire Support in Operation Neptune: A Reexamination 150
11. 7. Veterans Tell Their Stories and Why Historians and Others Listened 216
12. 8. Semper Paratus: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach 236
13. 9. American Pacifism, the ‘‘Greatest Generation,’’ and World War II 259
14. 10. Foreign Policy Experts as Service Intellectuals: The American Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Planning the Occupation of Japan During World War II 293
15. 11. Hiroshima and the U.S. Peace Movement: Commemoration of August 6, 1948–1960 333
16. Contributors 367
17. Index 373