The involvement of the united states in the second world war in 1941 has evoked more than thirty years of debate and brought fort as least three or four school of histotical writing. the eminent historian charles A. Beard began collecting materials for his two volume study of the foreign policy of franklin D. Roosevelts administration from the moment the japanese attacked pearl harbor
A flood of books poured from the presses since the 1930s regarding hitler, roosevelt, and world war II. Theese works have stressed such themes as diplomacy, war, grand strategy, propaganda, espionage and the tyranny of national socialism