An Album of Memories : Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw
Random House Publishing Group
9780375760419
0-375-76041-5
I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the most humble corners of the land.Tom BrokawIn this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in peoples own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their warin such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midwayas well as their lives on the home front. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique book preserves a peoples rich historical heritage and the legacy of a nations heroism in war and its courage in peacein the shaping of their lives and of the world we have today.