David Woodward, the author of The American Army and the First World War, explains why the United States was so late to participate in the Great War and why the war was one of the most devastating the U.S. army ever faced.
Read MoreAndrew Buchanan talks exclusively to fifteeneightyfour about his new book, American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II, which offers a thorough reinterpretation of the US engagement in this region during the Second World War. Far from being reluctant players, Dr. Buchanan argues instead that Washington had a grand-strategic interest in the region.
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