США во Второй мировой войне: мифы и реальность

In a worldwide best-selling book published for the first time in Russian, Canadian historian Jacques R. Pauwels analyzes the true role and goals of the United States in World War II and openly answers uncomfortable questions: Was Washington guided by humanitarian motives in opposing Nazi Germany, as is customary considered across the ocean, and why did many influential Americans - politicians, heads of corporations and banks - collaborate with fascist regimes, and after the end of the war they treated criminals so condescendingly? What explains the "bloody failure" of the attack on Dieppe in August 1942 and the infamous bombing of Dresden? Why is there still so little known in the West and in the United States about the Battle of Moscow in December 1941 and the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Red Army, while the Allied landing in Normandy in June 1944 is praised as a crushing blow to Nazi Germany? And what actually forced the Allies to open a second front? The author draws a very convincing analogy between the attitude of Americans to the "best war in the history" of the country and the fight against terrorism that unfolded after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, declared the "new Pearl Harbor", between the replicated clichés about the idealistic goals of Americans in World War II war and their peacekeeping mission in the Middle East... - history repeats itself.