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從珍珠港事件到希特勒對美宣戰──二十世紀史的最關鍵五天。

在1941年十二月初前，世界早已然因戰爭而面目全非：德國納粹佔領大部份的歐洲，抗日戰爭也讓中國變成戰場。然而，中西兩邊的戰爭尚未被連結起來，美國也還處於平靜狀態。

此書將重現日本偷襲珍珠港至四天後，希特勒帶領德國向美國宣戰這正式推翻僅存和平的關鍵五日。兩作者在書中闡述戰爭如何一發不可收拾，也細數當時的種種可能結果。那時候國際上幾位主要領袖必須在資訊極度貧乏且混亂的情況下決策，他們肩負的是個人和整個國家都具毀滅風險的巨大壓力；而部分人內心早有長期存在的假設，使他們在有意識或無意識的情況下做出了某些決定。

兩位史學教授重啟對這場重大戰爭的全新研究，也將讀者的眼光帶到過去常被忽略的調查資料。他們將說明其實希特勒的行徑並不適合解讀為一個嗜血狂人忘了一切策略的不智之舉，它是一個評估後才下的賭注，需要在思考全球景況和脈絡後才能妥善理解。尼爾‧佛格森稱讚此書是難得不以已知觀點檢視過往的歷史書，引人入勝地述說近代史上震盪並形塑世界的關鍵五天。

布蘭登‧西姆斯（Brendan Simms）劍橋大學國際關係史教授。最著名的著作包括入圍塞繆爾·約翰遜獎（Samuel Johnson Prize）的《Unfinest Hour》、2013年大獲好評的《Europe》和2019年出版的《Hitler》。

查理‧雷德曼（Charlie Laderman）是倫敦國王學院國際歷史學教授及德州大學奧斯汀分校克萊門茨國家安全中心研究員，也是《Sharing The Burden》和《Donald Trump》兩書的作者。

“All too often, historians narrate the past as if the end were preordained at the beginning. But history is not a novel or a play; it is more like a big game, in which the difference between victory and defeat depends on split-second decisions and hair’s breadths. In Hitler’s American Gamble, Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman grippingly retell the story of five days that not only shook but also shaped the world—the days between the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) and Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States (December 11). All students of both World War II and the Holocaust will learn, as I did, from their careful use of neglected documents and their attention to ‘counterfactuals’ that, for contemporaries, were at least as likely as what actually happened.” ―Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, and author of The War of the World

“Hitler’s American Gamble is a thrilling and authoritative study of five crucial days in the Second World War: December 7–11, 1941. Using a wide array of hitherto-neglected sources and their own deep understanding of the period, Laderman and Simms provide an altogether outstanding account of what transpired between the Pearl Harbor attack and Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States. A gripping tale, expertly told.” ―Fredrik Logevall, author of Embers of War

“Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler’s mad decision to declare war on the United States on December 11, 1941 proved suicidal for the Axis, ensured a global catastrophe, and would radically redefine how World War II would end. And yet was Hitler really as unhinged and reckless as it has seemed? Warring with America was predictably consistent with the Nazi’s Final Solution ideology. It was consistent with Germany’s allegiance with Japan and the idea of Americans and British suddenly bogged down in a new two-front war—and at the time seen as far more strategically advantageous than allowing a neutral America to continue to supply Germany’s enemies, the British Empire and Soviet Union. Hitler’s American Gamble is revisionist, but in the best sense of sound research, rare originality, singular analysis, and riveting prose.” ―Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, author of The Second World Wars