![]() In V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II (Scribner, 2023), Craig Nelson traces how Franklin D. Hardened isolationists predicted disaster if the country went to war. The United States, emerging from the Great Depression, was skeptical of American involvement in Europe and not ready to wage war. The Nazis were supported by robust German factories that created a seemingly endless flow of arms, trucks, tanks, airplanes, and submarines. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America’s military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied.
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