Americans in a World at War Audiobook Libro.fm

A vivid narrative of an illfated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and through them the impact of Americans global connections

On February 21 1943 Pan American Airways celebrated seaplane the Yankee Clipper took off from New Yorks Marine Air Terminal and islandhopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean Arriving at Lisbon the following evening it crashed in the Tagus River killing twentyfour of its thirtynine passengers and crew Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane their personal histories their politics and the paths that led them toward war

Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans both in and out of uniform who scattered across six continents during the Second World War This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth centurys most consequential conflict Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns Americans had forged extensive political economic and personal ties to other parts of the world These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort