The War; An Intimate History 1941-1945

Original black paper boards backed in black cloth. A main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the History Book Club, and the Military Book Club. A large, heavy book which will require extra postage. 451 pp.

From Publisher:

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced--and helped to win--the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.

Focusing on the citizens of four towns-- Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;--The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps--but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.

Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.

Product Info

ISBN: 0307262839

ISBN-13: 9780307262837

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Year: 2007

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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