Alex Levine’s Reviews > Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War > Status Update

Important point on the need for detailed historical work to unpack the “tension between determinacy and contingency.” Narratives about America’s entry into war against Germany after Pearl Harbor are flavored by later events, but in the moment actors who later recounted feeling assured (like Churchill) were deeply concerned about what the US would do.

“The global sense of confusion and unpredictability after Pearl Harbor…”