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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780375760419
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share
their wartime experiences….The stories and the lessons have
emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old
buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published
memoirs….As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it
truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the
most humble corners of the land.”
—Tom Brokaw
In this beautiful American family album of stories from the
Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the
Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in
people’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate
important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted
in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March.
A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation.
Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in such
historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of
the Bulge, and Midway—as well as their lives on the home front.
Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through
the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique
book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy
of a nation’s heroism in war and its courage in peace—in the
shaping of their lives and of the world we have today.
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