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

“It is often claimed that Hitler attacked the United States in ignorance or in spite of its power. This is not so… the Führer saw a narrow window of opportunity not to defeat the United States outright but to create a self-sufficient Axis bloc strong enough to withstand it.” Pg 398

“The future will show even the stupid and unreachable National Socialists what it means to make the entire world one’s enemy.”

-Friedrich Kellner-

Authors will layout 5 fateful days that plunged the world into war. They intend to break the common belief that December 7, 1941, was the start of a truly world war with the United States—that didn’t happen until December 11 when Hitler declared war on the United States. War between the U.S. and Germany was not imminent.