e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Shirley, Craig.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Chronology.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Shirley, Craig.
by title:
April 1945 : the hin...
by call number:
940.5373 S558a
Search the Web
Shirley, Craig.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Chronology.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
MARC Display
April 1945 : the hinge of history / Craig Shirley.
by
Shirley, Craig.
Nelson Books, 2022.
Call #:
940.5373 S558a
Subjects
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
United
States
--
Chronology
.
United
States
--
History
--
1933-1945.
ISBN:
9781400217083 (hc)
Alternate title:
April Nineteen forty-five
Description:
xvii, 508 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from
World
War
II as a leading superpower. In the long-awaited follow-up to the widely praised December 1941, Craig Shirley's April 1945 paints a vivid portrait of America
--
her people, faith, economy, government, and culture. The year of 1945 bought a series of watershed events that transformed the country into an arsenal of democracy, one that no longer armed the
world
by necessity but henceforth protected the
world
by need. At the start of 1945, America and the rest of the
world
were grieving millions of lives lost in the global conflict. As President Roosevelt was sworn into his fourth term, optimism over an end to the bloody
war
had grown
--
then, in April, several events collided that changed the face of the
world
forever: the sudden death of President Roosevelt followed by Harry S. Truman's rise to office; Adolph Hitler's suicide; and the horrific discoveries of Dachau and Auschwitz. Americans doubled down on their completion of the atomic bomb and their plans to drop them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the destruction ultimately leading the Japanese Empire to surrender on V-J day and ending
World
War
II for good. Combining engaging anecdotes with deft research and details that are both diminutive and grand, April 1945 gives readers a front-row seat to the American stage at the birth of a brand-new
world
."--Publisher.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.5373 S558a
Core Collection - Adult
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.