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The Good War

Studs Terkel

How do people who lived through the Second World War remember it, and what is lost when memory fades?

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Author
Studs Terkel

Why read it

  • You will stop seeing the Second World War as a distant story of won and lost battles, and hear it from people who lived it
  • You will see how the war changed life at home in America, from women in factories to sudden money
  • You will question the label of a good war by hearing a soldier describe two armies, one Black and one white

Who it is for

  • A reader who knows World War Two only from textbooks and films
  • A grandchild wanting to understand what a veteran carries
  • A history teacher looking for first person voices

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. BOOK ONE
  3. A SUNDAY MORNING
  4. DENNIS KEEGAN
  5. MAYOR TOM BRADLEY
  6. RON VEENKER
  7. PETER OTA
  8. YURIKO HOHRI
  9. FRANK KEEGAN
  10. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
  11. RICHARD M. (RED) PRENDERGAST
  12. TALES OF THE PACIFIC
  13. ROBERT LEKACHMAN
  14. MAURICE E. (JACK) WILSON
  15. PETER BEZICH
  16. ANTON BILEK
  17. THE GOOD REUBEN JAMES
  18. DAVID MILTON
  19. ROSIE
  20. SARAH KILLINGSWORTH
  21. DELLIE HAHNE
  22. PAULINE KAEL
  23. EVELYN FRASER
  24. BETTY BASYE HUTCHINSON
  25. NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS
  26. PAUL PISICANO
  27. JACK SHORT
  28. DON McFADDEN
  29. MAYOR TOM BRADLEY
  30. MICKEY RUIZ
  31. DEMPSEY TRAVIS
  32. WIN STRACKE
  33. JOHNNY DeGRAZIO
  34. REFLECTIONS ON MACHISMO
  35. ROGER TUTTRUP
  36. TED ALLENBY
  37. BOOK TWO
  38. HIGH RANK
  39. GENERAL WILLIAM BUSTER
  40. THE BOMBERS AND THE BOMBED
  41. AKIRA MIURI
  42. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
  43. EDDIE COSTELLO AND URSULA BENDER
  44. JEAN WOOD
  45. GROWING UP: HERE AND THERE
  46. YASUKO KURACHI DOWER
  47. WERNER BURCKHARDT
  48. OLEG TSAKUMOV
  49. SHERIL CUNNING
  50. GALATEA BERGER
  51. JEAN BARTLETT
  52. MARCEL OPHULS
  53. D-DAY AND ALL THAT
  54. CHARLES A. GATES
  55. ROSEMARY HANLEY
  56. JOE HANLEY
  57. TIMUEL BLACK
  58. DR. ALEX SHULMAN
  59. FRIEDA WOLFF
  60. BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY

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