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- W4386146738 abstract "Extract On February 21, 1943, THE celebrated Pan American Airways seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York’s Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of the thirty-nine passengers and crew on board. This book traces the backstories of seven people on that plane, seven worldly Americans, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Only two of them would survive the crash. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents on the eve of and during the Second World War. Long before GIs began storming beaches, and beyond the war’s most famous battlefields, Americans forged extensive political and economic ties to other parts of the world. Between spring 1939 and fall 1945, Pan Am’s regular transatlantic service alone transported 83,000 noncombatants back and forth across the ocean. Tens of thousands more travelled along the airline’s Pacific, Latin American, and African routes. Filing down the gangplank went bankers, oil brokers, ordinance experts, physicists, farmers, photographers, purchasing agents, plastic surgeons, statisticians, civil defense planners, fact-finding politicians, radio announcers, and more. Americans in a World at War revives this panoramic and often surprising history—of how a diverse cast of people were drawn into global crisis, how they navigated an era of unprecedented mobility and perilous interdependence, and how their deep and sometimes contradictory international engagements would shape and in turn be strengthened, transformed, or else derailed by the US war effort. It is a story about Americans in the world before the Allies were winning." @default.
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- W4386146738 title "Preface" @default.
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