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The industrialization of the American West during World War II brought about rapid and far-reaching social, cultural, and economic changes. Gerald D. Nash shows that the effect of the war on that region was nothing less than explosive.

How politics, propaganda, and profits sparked the drama, imagery, and fantasy of 1940s film--and marched America off to fight World War II. The authors examine how one of America's largest and most lucrative industries was enlisted as an enthusiastic recruiter for Uncle Sam to create scores of "entertainment" pictures in which blatant morale-building propaganda messages received top billing. Revealed is the powerful role of FDR's Office of War Information,...

The majority of American women supported the Allied cause during World War II and made sacrifices on the home front to benefit the war effort. But U.S. intervention was opposed by a movement led by ultraright women whose professed desire to keep their sons out of combat was mixed with militant Christianity, anticommunism, and anti-Semitism. This book is the first history of the self-styled "mothers' movement," so called because among its component...

Presents ca. 30 brief biographies and memoirs of women, some of them Jewish, who fought in the resistance, were prisoners in concentration camps, or survived in hiding. The group of resisters includes non-Jewish rescuers of Jews.

Nothing Sacred is the first book to document the Nazi espionage campaign against the Vatican in the Second World War. Nazi Germany considered the Catholic Church to be a serious threat to its domestic security and its international ambitions. In Germany, Hitler's agents recruited informants to provide intelligence on Church finances, and on the political views and activities of bishops, priests and lay Catholics. In Rome, however, German attempts...