We Felt the Flames : Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story

What they're saying about We Felt the Flames: Through the spring and summer of 1940, Americans with a sense of history watched in horror as the Wehrmacht marched into Paris and the Lufwaffe very nearly won the Battle of Britain. Other Americans print and radio journalists stationed in Berlin, Paris, and London did their best to keep their countrymen informed and to warn them of America's nearly certain involvement in the war. The journalists were an unusually giftedand eloquent lot. Telling who they were and how they covered that fateful year, Charles Kupfer reveals himself as an unusually gifted and eloquent historian.Allen Guttmann, Professor of American Studies, Amherst CollegeCharles Kupfer has produced a highly readable, soundly researched account of the summer of 1940, when American public opinion shifted from near-isolationism to near-consensus on the need to support the people of Great Britain struggling under the full force of Hitler's blitzkrieg. Key to the crucial shift in USattributes,was radio, especially the broadcasts from England of Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues, which gave a human face to the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Excerpts from broadcasts, and reactions on this side of the Atlantic, are skillfully presented here. No student of public opinion, no citizen concerned with US foreign policy, should fail to read this book. Kupfer's vivid prose keeps the drama high; his readers will sense that they, too, have 'felt the flames' of that fateful summer.Walt Whitman Rostow, Rex G. Baker Professor Emeritus, University of Texas; former National Security Advisor to the PresidentA hauntingly evocative analysis of the media voices who shaped andcrystallized America's difficult decision to aid Britain in 1940. Kupfer's book is a gripping, carefully researched new look at the pivotal sea change in American opinion.George Jaeger, former Deputy Assistant Secretary GeneralKupfer, Charles is the author of 'We Felt the Flames : Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story' with ISBN 9781887901345 and ISBN 1887901345.