Chuck Grimes wrote: > I don't know how to explain this. Between Davidson's Special Operations > Europe, and Burchett's work, it completely dissolved my concept of what WWII > was about.
Oh, now I get it. I just didn't see how it connected with the White story. Anyway, I don't know whether the authors' stories dissolve (as I understand them) my sense of what WW2 was about as much as add to it. There was clearly an element of "inter-imperialist rivalry" going on (the Allies vs. Germany _et al_), though in many ways Nazi Germany was worse than standard imperialism (which helped gain popular support for the war on the left). On the other hand, the Allies were _always_ opposed to grass-roots communists of various stripes, even though the Allies were allied to the "communist" USSR at the top, at the diplomatic and military levels. (That alliance was seen as a necessary evil, since the "let the USSR and the Nazis fight each other" strategy had been discredited.) Once the threat of the Nazis faded, the second (more fundamental) motive returned to the forefront in areas occupied by the Allies. -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac. Social science is in the middle.... and usually in a muddle. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
