![]() and to really examine that time because when we talk about World War II, we really usually think about Pearl Harbor and what happened after that. It was the only country that could possibly save the British, and yet it spent years debating about what to do.Īnd I decided that it was about time to look at the U.S. You know, it was waiting to find out what was going to happen to Britain. LYNNE OLSON: I had written a couple of books before this book, about Britain during the early years of World War II and about how it stood alone against Hitler. Why did you want to write about the period when right before America entered the war, when Americans were divided over whether or not to fight in World War II? It's one of several books she's written about World War II. It's called "Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941." My guest Lynne Olson has written a book about the isolationists and the interventionists who were on opposite sides of the debate over entering the war. ![]() And we didn't go until two years later, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war against the U.S. ![]() ![]() The debate was far more heated over whether we should go to war. We've seen so many stirring World War II films and heard so much praise for the so-called greatest generation, and we forget that when Britain and France went to war with Germany in 1939, Americans were divided over whether we should offer them military aid. During the controversy over whether to invade Iraq, many people look back to World War II, describing that as the good war, the just war, the war we knew we had to fight. ![]()
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