Winter of the World
By the war’s end, the United States had produced 84,000 tanks, 2.2 million trucks, 6.2 million rifles, and 41 billion rounds of small ammunition. The war against Hitler may have been a European fight, but it was very much made in the U.S.A. The more U.S. factories made, the more fine-grained their standardization became.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
In the fall of 1942, Major General Leslie R. Groves, representing the War Department, went to du Pont with the request that the company undertakes a share of a project of great importance in the war effort. This project dealt with the release of atomic energy. At the time, many other nations were working on different projects that could help end th... See more
Sriram Krishnan • Du Pont Bomb memo
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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