"The good war" : an oral history of World War Two /

Personal narratives of 121 persons involved in World War II.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Press : Distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton, [1997], ©1984.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives. Soldiers > United States > Biography. Soldiers > United States > Interviews. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Récits personnels. Soldiers. United States. 1939-1945 Personal Narrative Autobiography Interview interviews. Autobiographies. Biographies. Interviews. Personal narratives. Récits personnels.

Table of Contents:

A Sunday morning: John Garcia. Ron Veenker. Dennis Keegan. Peter Ota. Mayor Tom Bradley. Yuriko Hohri. Frank Keegan
A chance encounter: Robert Rasmus. Richard M. (Red) Prendergast
Tales of the Pacific: E.B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge. Maurice E. (Jack) Wilson. Robert Lekachman. Peter Bezich. Anton Bilek
The good Reuben James: Bill Bailey. David Milton
Rosie: Peggy Terry. Pauline Kael. Sarah Killingsworth. Evelyn Fraser. Dellie Hahne. Betty Basye Hutchinson
Neighborhood boys: Mike Royko. Mayor Tom Bradley. Paul Pisicano. Mickey Ruiz. Jack Short. Dempsey Travis. Don McFadden. Win Stracke. Johnny DeGrazio
Reflections on machismo: John H. Abbott. Roger Tuttrup. Ted Allenby
High rank: Admiral Gene LaRocque. General William Buster
The bombers and the bombed: John Ciardi. Akira Miuri. John Kenneth Galbraith. Eddie Costello and Ursula Bender. Jean Wood.
Growing up: here and there: John Baker. Sheril Cunning. Yasuko Kurachi Dower. Galatea Berger. Werner Burckhardt. Jean Bartlett. Oleg Tsakumov. Marcel Ophuls
D-day and all that: Elliott Johnson. Joe Hanley. Charles A. Gates. Timuel Black. Rosemary Hanley. Dr. Alex Shulman. Frieda Wolff
Boogie woogie bugle boy: Maxine Andrews
Sudden money: Ray Wax. George C. Page. A quiet little boom town. Lee Oremont
The big panjandrum: Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran. James Rowe. Hamilton Fish. John Kenneth Galbraith. Virginia Durr. Joe Marcus. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. W. Averell Harriman. Earl B. Dickerson
Flying high: Lowell Steward
Up front with pen, camera, and mike: John Houseman. Herman Kogan. Henry Hatfield. Alfred Duckett. Milton Caniff. Garson Kanin. Bill Mauldin. Richard Leacock. Walter Rosenblum.
Crime and punishment: Alvin (Tommy) Bridges. Joseph Small. Hans Göbeler and James Sanders. Charlie Miller. Jacques Raboud. Walter and Olga Nowak. Erich Lüth. Vitaly Korotich. Joseph Levine
A turning point: Joseph Polowsky. Galina Alexeyeva. Mikhail Nikolaevich Alexeyev. Viktor Andreyevich Kondratenko. Grigori Baklanov
Chilly winds: Telford Taylor. Eileen Barth. Arno Mayer. Anthony Scariano. Erhard Dabringhaus. Irving Goff. Milton Wolff. Hans Massaquoi
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?: Philip Morrison. John H. Grove. Marnie Seymour. Bill Barney. Hajimi Kito and Hideko Tamura (Tammy) Friedman. Victory Tolley. John Smitherman. Joseph Stasiak
Remembrance of things past: Nancy Arnot Harjan. Paul Edwards
Epilogue: boom babies and other new people: Nora Watson. Joachim Adler and Marlene Schmidt. Steve McConnell. Debbie Cooney. George Seymour. Street-Corner Kids.