Americans in a world at war : intimate histories from the crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper /
Brooke L. Blower.
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Americans in a World at War' tells the panoramic and often surprising story of seven worldly Americans, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them to board a Pan American Airways seaplane bound for Lisbon in February 1943. When the Yankee Clipper crashed in the Tagus River, it took numerous lives but left a paper trail that leads to a richer, deeper understanding of Americans' diverse global commitments during the first half of the twentieth century as well as how the Second World War would transform those engagements.