John Kresevic is a hard-working loan officer who makes his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he works at Forthright Funding. He is known to work long hours for clients who are refinancing their homes, answering emails until 11PM and responding to all communications as quickly as possible, no matter what day of the week it is.
But when he does get some leisure time, John Kresevic is an avid reader whose favorite subjects include autobiographies and history, in particular books about the Civil War and World War Two. "In college," he recalls, "every free class I had was devote to history classes."
World War Two is viewed by many historians as the defining event of the twentieth century, involving as it did Europe, Asia, and North America. And as he knows, when it was over the shift in power from Europe to the United States and the Soviet Union dominated world politics for the next forty-five years. In the United States World War Two, so often remembered as a good war fought by the greatest generation, almost single-handedly ended the Great Depression, set in motion the process of racial integration, and ushered in an era of technology that included the introduction of radar and electronic warfare, sonar, the jet engine, and other innovations. And perhaps most significantly, the war ended with the use of nuclear weapons.
For those reasons and many more, John Kresevic understands that there is great value in the study of World War Two, and how it explains how the world of the second half of the twentieth century became such a vastly different place than the world of the first half.
But when he does get some leisure time, John Kresevic is an avid reader whose favorite subjects include autobiographies and history, in particular books about the Civil War and World War Two. "In college," he recalls, "every free class I had was devote to history classes."
World War Two is viewed by many historians as the defining event of the twentieth century, involving as it did Europe, Asia, and North America. And as he knows, when it was over the shift in power from Europe to the United States and the Soviet Union dominated world politics for the next forty-five years. In the United States World War Two, so often remembered as a good war fought by the greatest generation, almost single-handedly ended the Great Depression, set in motion the process of racial integration, and ushered in an era of technology that included the introduction of radar and electronic warfare, sonar, the jet engine, and other innovations. And perhaps most significantly, the war ended with the use of nuclear weapons.
For those reasons and many more, John Kresevic understands that there is great value in the study of World War Two, and how it explains how the world of the second half of the twentieth century became such a vastly different place than the world of the first half.