World War II

ROLL OF THE DICE

WHY DID HITLER DECLARE WAR on the United States four days after Pearl Harbor? Was his decision a calculated risk that came up short? An unrealistic reliance on U-boats to contain America to the ocean? The product of an unhinged mind? In , British professors Brendan Simms and

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