WAR, THE（ISBN=） 英文原版

  　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.

　　Geoffrey C. Ward wrote the * for the film series The War
and is the winner of five Emmys and two Writers Guild of America
awards for his work for public television. He is also a historian
and biographer and the author of fourteen books, including most
recently Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989 and the
Francis Parkman Prize in 1990. He lives in New York City.
　　Ken Burns, producer and director of the film series The War,
founded his own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His
films include Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the
highest-rated series in the history of American public television.
His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody
Awards, and received two Academy Award nominations. He lives in
Walpole, New Hampshire.

INTRODUCTION
Chapter One 
A NECESSARY WAR
December ! -December
Chapter Two 
WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH
January-November
Chapter Three
A DEADLY CALLING
November -June
Chapter Four 
PRIDE OF OUR NATION
une-August
Chapter Five 
FUBAR
August-December
Chapter Six 
THE GHOST FRONT
December -March
Chapter Seven 
A WORLD WITHOUT WAR
March-August
Acknowledgments
Bibliography 
Index
Illustration Credits 
Film Credits

　　“Ken Burns has done it again. He has given us an intimate,
memorable, and provocative portrait of America in World War II—the
valor and victory, sacrifice and shame of ordinary Americans,
north, south, east, and west. This is a treasure.” —Tom
Brokaw
　　“Heartrending . . . Unique not only among previous volumes that
have accompanied Burns’s documentaries but among just about any
book on World War II . . . It should be read by everyone in the
family, from the high-schoolers to the Baby Boomers.” —Newark
Star-Ledger