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Original Title:	The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
ISBN:	1565843436 (ISBN13: 9781565843431)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1985)

The Good War

Studs Terkel

Paperback | Pages: 608 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 3685 Users | 236 Reviews

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Title	:	The Good War
Author	:	Studs Terkel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 608 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2004 by New Press (first published 1984)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. World War II

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In The Good War Terkel presents the good, the bad, and the ugly memories of World War II from a perspective of forty years of after the events. No matter how gruesome the memories are, relatively few of the interviewees said they would have been better off without the experience. It was a central and formative experience in their lives. Although 400,000 Americans perished, the United States itself was not attacked again after Pearl Harbor, the economy grew, and there was a new sense of world power that invigorated the country. Some women and African Americans experienced new freedoms in the post war society, but good life after World War II was tarnished by the threat of nuclear war.

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Ratings: 4.27 From 3685 Users | 236 Reviews

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Review title: Talkin' World War III BluesDylan's song, serious in its frivolous lyrics, was poetry. Terkel's oral transcripts of interviews about World War Two are poetic, but lyrical in their seriousness. And the magic of Terkel's oral histories is that while we know that the raw material must be just that--oral transcripts of interviews--the finished product feels both less edited somehow, like snatches of kitchen table conversations, and more profound because of it. By this point in his

Truly excellent oral history. This is a collection of skillfully elicited accounts of the World War Two stories covering the lives of men and women from all walks of life. Studs Terkel was just an amazing historian and interviewer. These histories will give a personal touch to your knowledge of the war to end all wars.

This was a really readable history of different aspects of World War Two, covering the European and Pacific theatres, through interviews with participants and eyewitnesses. While mostly oral histories with Americans, Turkel has also interviewed people from Japan, Germany and several other countries as well.

Barbarism, sacrifice, misery, kindness - this book holds a repertoire of what mankind is capable of doing. It is a compilation of hundreds of experiences from WW2 survivors, on how they shaped the war, or how the war shaped their lives. Soldiers. Generals. Intelligence. Cartoonists. Prisoners of War across the world. The physicists who made the atomic bomb. The scale is just unbelievable, and what you are left with is a sense, that is deeply unsettling at times and indicative of what wartime is

An excellent collection of personal recollections. I should have read this ages ago, but never too late. Some better and more interesting than others, but a good cross-section of views. The last couple post war views of random people with no connection seemed out of place and not a good post-war cross section, but those are only a few. I was surprised (but should not have been) by the range of experiences. The horror parts (nuclear victims) were expected, but not those sharing what a great, and

It is hard to imagine a way to truly review this collection of peoples remembrances. World War 2 is the stuff of legend, but now the people who lived through it are falling to historys most constant marker: the gravestone, which stands in silence. This book keeps their voices alive in all their astonishing diversity, and the history they relate is both deeper and richer than most could imagine.It is often a very difficult book to read. The stories are frequently poignant, stark, heartbreaking.