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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
The Good War An Oral History of World War II
Author: Studs Terkel
A writer, reporter, and above all, a good listener, Studs Turkel has spent a career posing provocative questions and actively listening to the answers. In "The Good War", Terkel talks to Americans, both famous and obscure, about their contrasting, not always golden, memories of the war that shaped their lives, World War II.
ISBN-13: 9780394531038
ISBN-10: 0394531035
Publication Date: 9/12/1984
Pages: 589
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A fascinating book! Studs Terkel interviews people and publishes their stories in their own words. The word that best describes his work is "authenticity." In this book, he helps a number of WWII veterans tell their own stories in their own words. Their memories and their language are very much those of a very different time, and they brought back memories of the men of that generation whom I once knew. Those men are mostly gone now, but they live on in books like this one.


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