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The War:an Intimate History, 1941-1945
[Paperback - 2010]
geoffrey c. ward
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Category: History
Sub-category: World War Ii
Additional Category: Military History - North American History
Publisher: Knopf | ISBN: 9780375711183 | Pages: 480
Shipping Weight: 1.616 | Dimensions: 9.11 x 1.08 x 10.61 inches

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An intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the most devastating war in history, as told through the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—it. • Includes maps and hundreds of photographs.

Focusing on the citizens of four towns—Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.

About the Author

Geoffrey Champion Ward is an author and screenwriter of various documentary presentations of American history. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962.He was an editor ofAmerican Heritagemagazine early in his career. He wrote the television mini-seriesThe Civil Warwith its director Ken Burns and has collaborated with Burns on every documentary he has made since, includingJazzandBaseball. This work won him five Emmy Awards. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration,The War, premiered on PBS in September 2007. In addition he co-wroteThe West, of which Ken Burns was an executive producer, with fellow historian Dayton Duncan.

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