Episode 334: Paul Thomas Chamberlin Peels Back Mythology Around World War II
Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin, author of SCORCHED EARTH: A Global History of World War II. In the interview, we discussed how World War II fits into a larger story of the rise and fall of empires, the creation and destruction of colonial systems, and the reconfiguration of imperial power. The most surprising thing I discussed with Chamberlin is how the United States, in 1943, and the United Kingdom, in 1945, had developed plans to fight the Soviet Union using Nazi troops. Paul Thomas Chamberlin is an associate professor in history at…
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