1945年4月：历史的枢纽[有声读物]

著名历史学家、《纽约时报》畅销书作家克雷格·雪莉（Craig Shirley）对1945年，特别是4月份的分水岭事件进行了引人注目的描述，详细描述了美国如何从二战中崛起为一个领先的超级大国。克雷格·雪莉（Craig Shirley）在1945年4月的作品生动地描绘了美国——她的人民、信仰、经济、政府和文化。1945年发生了一系列分水岭式的事件，把这个国家变成了一个民主的武库，一个不再需要武装世界，而是需要保护世界的武库。
1945年初，美国和世界其他地区正在为在全球冲突中丧生的数百万人哀悼。随着罗斯福总统宣誓就任第四个任期，人们对结束血腥战争的乐观情绪有所增长——然后，在4月，几件事发生了冲突，永远改变了世界的面貌：罗斯福总统突然去世，接着是哈里·S·杜鲁门上台；阿道夫·希特勒的自杀；还有达豪和奥斯威辛的可怕发现。美国人加倍努力，完成了原子弹的制造，并计划将其投到广岛和长崎，最终导致日本帝国在二战日投降，并永久结束了第二次世界大战。1945年4月，将引人入胜的轶事、精巧的研究和既小又大的细节结合起来，让听众在一个全新世界诞生之际，坐在美国舞台的前排。
April 1945: The Hinge of History [Audiobook]
Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower, Craig Shirley’s April 1945 paints a vivid portrait of America – her people, faith, economy, government, and culture. The year of 1945 bought a series of watershed events that transformed the country into an arsenal of democracy, one that no longer armed the world by necessity but henceforth protected the world by need.
At the start of 1945, America and the rest of the world were grieving millions of lives lost in the global conflict. As President Roosevelt was sworn into his fourth term, optimism over an end to the bloody war had grown – then, in April, several events collided that changed the face of the world forever: the sudden death of President Roosevelt followed by Harry S. Truman’s rise to office; Adolph Hitler’s suicide; and the horrific discoveries of Dachau and Auschwitz. Americans doubled down on their completion of the atomic bomb and their plans to drop them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the destruction ultimately leading the Japanese Empire to surrender on V-J day and ending World War II for good. Combining engaging anecdotes with deft research and details that are both diminutive and grand, April 1945 gives listeners a front-row seat to the American stage at the birth of a brand-new world.

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