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Letters from the Greatest Generation: Writing Home in WWII
Howard H. Peckham (Ed.)
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Description for Letters from the Greatest Generation: Writing Home in WWII
Paperback. "Originally published as Letters from Fighting Hoosiers by Howard H. Peckham and Shirley A. Snyder, Indiana War History Commission, 1948." Editor(s): Peckham, Howard H.; Snyder, Shirley A. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Victory and defeat, love and loss are the prevalent realities of Letters from the Greatest Generation, a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each page, and their voices ring loud and clear. It's all part of the game but it's bloody and rough, wrote one soldier to his wife. Wearing two stripes now and as proud as an old cat with five kittens, marked another. Yet, as many countries rejoiced on V-E Day, soldiers were ... Read more
Victory and defeat, love and loss are the prevalent realities of Letters from the Greatest Generation, a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each page, and their voices ring loud and clear. It's all part of the game but it's bloody and rough, wrote one soldier to his wife. Wearing two stripes now and as proud as an old cat with five kittens, marked another. Yet, as many countries rejoiced on V-E Day, soldiers were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253024480
SKU
V9780253024480
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About Howard H. Peckham (Ed.)
Howard H. Peckham (1910-1995) was Professor of History and Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. From 1945 to 1953, Peckham was Director of the Indiana Historical Bureau and Secretary of the Indiana Historical Society. Shirley A. Snyder (1924-1999) was an editor for the Indiana Historical Society. Previously, she edited for the ... Read more
Reviews for Letters from the Greatest Generation: Writing Home in WWII
Over the last several decades there has been a tendency to simplify and romanticize the experiences of the men and women that fought World War II. These letters, written in the war moment itself, offer a poignant response. Page after page, often in lyrical prose,ordinary Americans tell of their lives atbasic training, at bases and camps on the home front ... Read more