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ISBN 10: 1595587596
ISBN 13: 9781595587596
Author: Studs Terkel
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe). “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called “a splendid epic history” of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. “Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers.” —The New York Times Book Review “I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel’s book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling.” —Chicago Tribune “A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing.” —People
The Good War An Oral History of World War II 1st Table of contents:
- Introduction
- BOOK ONE
- A SUNDAY MORNING
- JOHN GARCIA
- DENNIS KEEGAN
- MAYOR TOM BRADLEY
- RON VEENKER
- PETER OTA
- YURIKO HOHRI
- FRANK KEEGAN
- A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
- ROBERT RASMUS
- RICHARD M. (RED) PRENDERGAST
- TALES OF THE PACIFIC
- E. B. (SLEDGEHAMMER) SLEDGE
- ROBERT LEKACHMAN
- MAURICE E. (JACK) WILSON
- PETER BEZICH
- ANTON BILEK
- THE GOOD REUBEN JAMES
- BILL BAILEY
- DAVID MILTON
- ROSIE
- PEGGY TERRY
- SARAH KILLINGSWORTH
- DELLIE HAHNE
- PAULINE KAEL
- EVELYN FRASER
- BETTY BASYE HUTCHINSON
- NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS
- MIKE ROYKO
- PAUL PISICANO
- JACK SHORT
- DON McFADDEN
- MAYOR TOM BRADLEY
- MICKEY RUIZ
- DEMPSEY TRAVIS
- WIN STRACKE
- JOHNNY DeGRAZIO
- REFLECTIONS ON MACHISMO
- JOHN H. ABBOTT
- ROGER TUTTRUP
- TED ALLENBY
- BOOK TWO
- HIGH RANK
- ADMIRAL GENE LAROCQUE
- GENERAL WILLIAM BUSTER
- THE BOMBERS AND THE BOMBED
- JOHN CIARDI
- AKIRA MIURI
- JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
- EDDIE COSTELLO AND URSULA BENDER
- JEAN WOOD
- GROWING UP: HERE AND THERE
- JOHN BAKER
- YASUKO KURACHI DOWER
- WERNER BURCKHARDT
- OLEG TSAKUMOV
- SHERIL CUNNING
- GALATEA BERGER
- JEAN BARTLETT
- MARCEL OPHULS
- D-DAY AND ALL THAT
- ELLIOTT JOHNSON
- CHARLES A. GATES
- ROSEMARY HANLEY
- JOE HANLEY
- TIMUEL BLACK
- DR. ALEX SHULMAN
- FRIEDA WOLFF
- BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY
- MAXINE ANDREWS
- BOOK THREE
- SUDDEN MONEY
- RAY WAX
- A QUIET LITTLE BOOM TOWN
- ELSIE ROSSIO
- GEORGIA GLEASON
- AT THE BAR
- GEORGE C. PAGE
- LEE OREMONT
- THE BIG PANJANDRUM
- THOMAS G. (TOMMY THE CORK) CORCORAN
- JAMES ROWE
- JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
- JOE MARCUS
- W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
- HAMILTON FISH
- VIRGINIA DURR
- JOSEPH L. RAUH, JR.
- EARL B. DICKERSON
- FLYING HIGH
- LOWELL STEWARD
- UP FRONT WITH PEN, CAMERA, AND MIKE
- JOHN HOUSEMAN
- HENRY HATFIELD
- MILTON CANIFF
- BILL MAULDIN
- HERMAN KOGAN
- ALFRED DUCKETT
- GARSON KANIN
- RICHARD LEACOCK
- WALTER ROSENBLUM
- BOOK FOUR
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- ALVIN (TOMMY) BRIDGES
- JOSEPH SMALL
- HANS GOBELER AND JAMES SANDERS
- CHARLIE MILLER
- JACQUES RABOUD
- WALTER AND OLGA NOWAK
- ERICH LUTH
- VITALY KOROTICH
- JOSEPH LEVINE
- A TURNING POINT
- JOSEPH POLOWSKY
- MIKHAIL NIKOLAEVICH ALEXEYEV
- GALINA ALEXEYEVA
- VIKTOR ANDREYEVICH KONDRATENKO
- GRIGORI BAKLANOV
- CHILLY WINDS
- TELFORD TAYLOR
- ARNO MAYER
- ERHARD DABRINGHAUS
- MILTON WOLFF
- EILEEN BARTH
- ANTHONY SCARIANO
- IRVING GOFF
- HANS MASSAQUOI
- IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN’T MY BABY?
- PHILIP MORRISON
- MARNIE SEYMOUR
- JOHN H. GROVE
- BILL BARNEY
- FATHER GEORGE ZABELKA
- HAJIMI KITO AND HIDEKO TAMURA (TAMMY) FRIEDMAN
- VICTOR TOLLEY
- JOHN SMITHERMAN
- JOSEPH STASIAK
- REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
- NANCY ARNOT HARJAN
- PAUL EDWARDS
- EPILOGUE:
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