Summary Of The Best War Ever Sparknotes

The book The Best War Ever, by Michael C. C. Adams, is about World War II, the events that led up to the war, and the years following the war. Adams starts the book off explaining some myths that people have about the war. The biggest myth associated with the war is that it was the best war ever. Adams then spends the rest of the book talking about why this may or may not be true. In the following chapters, Adams explains the events that led to the war and the events that accorded during World War II. Italy, Japan, and Germany all took actions that made them the aggressors for the war. The war did not start because of one event. It was caused by events that happened over a long period of time by many imperfect people. From the American perspective,

While the effort of America was important in winning the war, there was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against blacks, Native Americans, women, and homosexuals within the military. The men who fought in the war saw terrible conditions and many had mental breakdowns. This chapter in the book explains the deaths that many soldiers witnessed and how many men became separated from humanity. This caused many soldiers to become insane. The final two chapters in the book talk about changes in the American society throughout the war and the results from the war. This war was greater for the American society than it was for their soldiers. While many of the soldiers lost their mind, American saw great economic growth and overcame the Great Depression. Finally, in the last chapter, Adams talks about the knowledge of postwar history. Although evil groups, such as Nazism, had been overcome, many problems remained in the home front that and some still exist

It helps the reader truly understand the events leading to the war, the results from the war, and what the soldiers went through both during and after the war. Most of the information presented in Adams book is not normally presented in History classes and helps the reader broaden their knowledge on the topic. The book is also well organized. Adams presents his information in order. He starts off talking about the myths of the war, then goes to the events leading to the war, the talks about the war and what the soldiers went through, and then finishes the book with the results of the war. He presents his information in both a topical and chronological order. He will begin a section talking about one country and go in chronological order of their events and then switch to another country and do the same. It helps keep all of the information in order and makes it easy for the reader to follow along. Adams based his work manly off secondary sources such as other books. The strongest part of the book was the evidence he presented on each topic, but the weakest part of the book is his evaluation on each