Book contents
- Nature at War
- Nature at War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables and Charts
- Maps
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I New Weapons, New Spaces
- Part II Military Materials I (metals and energy)
- Part III Military Materials II (foods and plants)
- Part IV New Landscapes
- Part V New Frontiers
- Part VI Conservation
- Index
Introduction
Total War and American Nature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
- Nature at War
- Nature at War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables and Charts
- Maps
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I New Weapons, New Spaces
- Part II Military Materials I (metals and energy)
- Part III Military Materials II (foods and plants)
- Part IV New Landscapes
- Part V New Frontiers
- Part VI Conservation
- Index
Summary
In late summer 1943, famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle sat above a newly constructed port in Sicily ‒ the island near Italy’s toe that Anglo-American forces had invaded in early July – taking in the scene below. Pyle had sailed with Allied troops across the Mediterranean from North Africa. Before D-day in Normandy 11 months later, the Sicily campaign – Operation Husky – was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving an astonishing armada of nearly 3,000 ships. “There is no way of conveying the enormous size of that fleet,” wrote Pyle. “On the horizon it resembled a distant city. It covered half the skyline.… Even to be part of it was frightening.”2
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- Nature at WarAmerican Environments and World War II, pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020