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Major Problems in the History of World War H: Documents and Essays. Edited by Mark A. Stoler and Melanie S. Gustafson. New York: Houghton and Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0-618-06132-0. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Pp. xvi, 472. $43.56.
America's "good war" is difficult to teach. Is it world history, American history, or equal measures of European and Asian history with the United States as a major actor? Should the emphasis primarily be on the military aspects of the war-or the individual conflicts-or should equal time be given to social, intellectual, and economic issues? This volume in Houghton Mifflin's Major Problems in American History series does not answer these...