Vol 1, YEARS 1917-1941
Author: Robert C Valentine
A Toast For You and Me, America’s Participation, Sacrifice and Victory
retail softcover: $16.95
isbn-13: 978-0-685-50359-1
web commerce price: $14.95
Superb book
The American participation in the Neutrality era, non-fiction 204 pages. Rare color photography.

The Neutral Era Uncovers history with exclusive color photos.
Field of research includes espionage and 5th Column cells that are often neglected in history; ie. breaking the 5-Num Japanese code, secret bombing of an army barracks, the super secret micro dot, Madame X; unfolds the days leading up to Dec 7, 1941.
Educational and easy to read for the young. Prewar Neutrality Acts and their comprehensive examination, the Powerful State, the impression of betterment and change, relationship between Fascism and Communism, a quantum word on the economy of Germany circa 1921-1939, Hans von Seeckt, Gustav Stresemann, Emil Kirdhoff, Franz von Papen, rise of the Nazi Party, Sudetenland & the fall of model democratic country Czechoslovakia, world drifts into war, the weight of Nazi Germany presses on Western Europe, Britain hangs on alone, special Ernie Pyle report from the Battle of Britain, FDR proclaims “Limited National Emergency”, the U.S. Census, conscription and the debate of the draft, the build-up of a defense program, three quarters of Europe is under strict State controls, multilateral policy of the Good Neighbor Policy, national defense participation, U.S. aviation cadets and the unsung early life of developing pilots, formation of Tri-Axis, rise of Imperial Japan, Raschid Ali el Gailani, Selassi and the land of the lion Ethiopia, belligerents, the whole isolationism dilemma, Lend-Lease, 1941 era of exchanges, cryptography, interceptors, signalers and deceit, Barbarossa, Bluie West One, Iceland, Greenland, greatest spy-roundup in U.S. history, definition of 5th Columns, MIPU, appendices of FDR speeches, actual Tri-Partite Treaty, first 17 agencies of national and American hemispheric defense, Dec. 7, 1941. 103 pictures in color. Over 50 black and white illustrations. Poignant narrative begins with the invasion of Poland. Details the Neutrality period of the United States up to December 1941. Informative. Historical. Index.