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Bezig met laden... Why England Slept (1940)door John F. Kennedy
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) antiquary | Dec 13, 2013 |   ) Schmerguls | Aug 28, 2007 | In his introduction he answers churchill this way ""... it appears extremely shortsighted to dismiss superficially England's present position as the result of one man or one group of men's blindness...But,given the conditions of democratic goverment...it is unreasonable to blame the entire situation on one man or group". Of the US he states "The investigations of the last month in America have shown that we are in no position to criticize blindly. It was a great shock to America to wake up one morning...and find that her supposeedly invulnerable position between two large oceans was invulnerable no longer." a little further on he continues "...if Hitler suceeds in winning the present war, the position of America will remarkably similar of that of England during the last decade." This is a must read for any serious WW2 reader. ( ) usnmm2 | Apr 10, 2007 |  susangeib | Oct 30, 2023 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Originally published in 1940, Why England Slept was written by then-Harvard student and future American president John F. Kennedy. It was Kennedy's senior thesis that analyzed the tremendous miscalculations of the British leaders in facing Germany on the advent of World War II, and in doing so, also addressed the challenges that democracies face when confronted directly with fascist states. In Why England Slept, at the book's core, John F. Kennedy asks: Why was England so poorly prepared for the war? He provides a comprehensive analysis of the tremendous miscalculations of the British leadership when it came to dealing with Germany and leads readers into considering other questions: Was the poor state of the British army the reason Chamberlain capitulated at Munich, or were there other, less-obvious elements at work that allowed this to happen? Kennedy also looks at similarities to America's position of unpreparedness and makes astute observations about the implications involved. This re-publication of the classic book contains excerpts from the foreword to the 1940 original edition by Henry R. Luce, an American magazine magnate during that era; the foreword to the 1961 edition, also written by Luce; and a new foreword by Stephen C. Schlesinger, written in 2015. * Provides fascinating insights into the young mind and worldview of then-Harvard senior John F. Kennedy via his thesis, for which he'd toured Europe, the Balkans, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s * Presents both a pointed indictment of British policy leading up to World War II as well as an examination of the weaknesses, merits, and pitfalls for democratic governments based on capitalist economies * Features a new foreword written by Stephen C. Schlesinger, senior fellow at the Century Foundation in New York; author of Act of Creation: The Founding of The United Nations, winner of the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award; former director of the World Policy Institute at the New School (1997-2006); and former publisher of the magazine The World Policy Journal Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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