About the Author

Walter Millis (1899–1968) wrote for many years for the New York Herald-Tribune and later joined the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He is also the author of Road to War and Arms and Men, and is the editor of The Forrestal Diaries.

Reviews

A notable contribution to the study of American history and of American character.
*Henry Steele Commager*

Mr. Millis writes every page well.
*The New York Times*

A complete history of the American people at war which is so well contrived and so wittily written that it puts to shame both the efforts of professional historians and the products of those writers who merely seek to amuse without intending to inform.
*The Nation*

A valuable and highly readable case study.
*American Political Science Review*