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(3.25) | None | No one knew it was going to be that bad. World War II killed some 60 million people-20 million of them soldiers-and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in advance as it was for young pilots-in-training to imagine their coming fiery deaths; or for Jews to foresee their last moments in the gas chambers; or for parents to imagine their children killed by the mortars and bullets and other munitions that factories churned out in such enormous quantities. As impossible, perhaps, as it is for us to imagine a disaster of similar scale in our future.The War presents an unforgettable mosaic of memoirs from soldiers, citizens and historians, detailing the immense tragedy that stretched from the Western Front to the Pacific Theater.… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions No one knew it was going to be that bad. World War II killed some 60 million people-20 million of them soldiers-and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in advance as it was for young pilots-in-training to imagine their coming fiery deaths; or for Jews to foresee their last moments in the gas chambers; or for parents to imagine their children killed by the mortars and bullets and other munitions that factories churned out in such enormous quantities. As impossible, perhaps, as it is for us to imagine a disaster of similar scale in our future.The War presents an unforgettable mosaic of memoirs from soldiers, citizens and historians, detailing the immense tragedy that stretched from the Western Front to the Pacific Theater. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - Excerpt from Goodbye, Darkness / William Manchester
- Excerpt from Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic / Paul Fussell
- Excerpt from The Longest Day / Cornelius Ryan
- Excerpt from The Long Walk / Sławomir Rawicz as told to Ronald Downing
- Excerpt from Heroic Heart: The Diary and Letters of Kim Malthe-Bruun, 1941-1945 / edited by Vibeke Malthe-Bruun
- Excerpt from Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945 / James J. Fahey
- Mollie / A.J. Liebling
- Excerpt from The Thin Red Line / James Jones
- The Escape of Mrs. Jeffries / Janet Flanner
- Excerpt from Parachute Infantry / David Kenyon Webster
- Excerpt from The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont, 1940-1944 / Marie-Louise Osmont
- Excerpt from The Bloody Battle for Suribachi / Richard Wheeler
- Excerpt from We Were Each Other's Prisoners / Lewis H. Carlson
- Bond Rally / E.B. White
- Excerpt from With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa / E.B. Sledge
- Excerpt from Citizen Soldiers / Stephen E. Ambrose
- Excerpt from Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima / Toyofumi Ogura
- Excerpt from Flights of Passage / Samuel Hynes
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