Americans
Remember the Home Front : An Oral Narrative of the World War II Years in
America
by Roy Hoopes (Editor)
(Paperback - May 2002)
Once
Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
by Bob Greene
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Millions of American soldiers, many of whom had never left their hometowns
before, crossed the nation by rail during the years of World War II on
their way to training camps and distant theaters of battle. In a little
town in Nebraska, countless thousands of them met with extraordinary hospitality--the
"miracle" of veteran journalist Bob Greene's title. "The best America there
ever was. Or at least, whatever might be left of it." So Greene writes
of North Platte, now a quiet town along the interstate, its main street
all but dead. It was a quiet town then, too, at the outbreak of the war,
but still a hive of activity as its citizens gathered to provide, at their
own expense, coffee, sandwiches, books, playing cards, and time to the
scared young men who rolled through by the trainload, "telling them that
their country cared about them." Greene's pages are full of the voices
of those who were there, soldiers and townspeople alike, who took part
in what amounted to small acts of heroism, given the shortages and rationing
of the time. Greene, generous in his praise if rather disheartened by the
modern world, against which he contrasts the past, turns in a remarkable
account of the home front. It deserves the widest audience. ---Gregory
McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 272 pages
William Morrow & Co; ISBN: 0060081961; (May 28, 2002)
No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World
War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Paperback - October 1995)
Our
War Too: American Women Against the Axis
by Margaret Paton-Walsh
Book Description: In the late 1930s, a number of American women
- especially those allied with various peace and isolationist groups -
protested against the nation’s entry into World War II. While their story
is fairly well known, Margaret Paton-Walsh reveals a far less familiar
story of women who fervently felt that American intervention was absolutely
necessary.
Paton-Walsh recounts how the United States became involved in the war,
but does so through the eyes of American women who faced it as a necessary
evil. Covering the period between 1935 and 1941, she examines how these
women functioned as political actors - even though they were excluded from
positions of power - through activism in women’s organizations, informal
women’s networks, and even male-dominated lobbying groups.
Hardcover: 238 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x
9.26 x 6.40
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas; (September 2002)
ISBN: 0700611835
Insidious
Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front
by Francis MacDonnell
Hardcover: 268 pages
Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195092686; (October 1995)
Una
Storia Segreta : The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and
Interment During World War II
by Lawrence Distasi (Editor), Sandra Gilbert
Paperback: 350 pages
Heyday Books; ISBN: 1890771406; (June 1, 2001)
The
Home Front : An Oral History of the War Years in America
by Archie Satterfield
Paperback: 396 pages
iUniverse.com; ISBN: 0595088805; (October 2000)
Wartime
America : The World War II Home Front (American Ways Series)
by John W. Jeffries
Paperback: 224 pages
Ivan R Dee, Inc.; ISBN: 156663119X; (September 1997)
Women
Against the Good War : Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American
Home Front, 1941-1947 (Gender & American Culture)
by Rachel Waltner Goossen
(Paperback - November 1997)
World
War II : From the Battle Front to the Home Front, Thirty-Five Arkansans
Tell Their Stories
by Kay B. Hall (Editor)
(Paperback - September 1995)
World
War II in Tampa Bay, FL
by Alejandro M. de Quesada
World
War II and the American Dream : How Wartime Building Changed a Nation
Donald Albrecht, et al
Paperback - 328 pages (April 18, 1995)
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262510839
World War II Homefront Collectibles: Price & Identification Guide
by Martin Jacobs
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Years
of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
by James A. Michener (Introduction), Michi Nishiura Weglyn
(Paperback - May 1996)
V for Victory: America's Home Front During World War II
by Stan Cohen
(Paperback - October 1991)
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