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Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called "the good war" because, in the words of one soldier, "to see fascism defeated, nothing better could have happened to a human being"). These participants, men and women, famous and ordinary, tell stories that add immeasurably to our understanding of that cataclysmic time. One Soviet soldier recounts that, surrounded by the Germans, his comrades tapped the powder from their last cartridges and inserted notes to their families inside the casings; Russian children, he goes on, still turn these up every now and again and deliver the notes to the soldiers' families. Terkel touches on many themes along the way, including institutionalized racism in the United States military, the birth of the military-industrial complex, and the origins of the Cold War.
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In World War II memories, Terkel has found a great, untold story - with fore-shadowings of Vietnam and aftershocks of atomic warfare. Terkel explains the title, matter-of-factly, as the Vietnam, nuclear-war contrast; the testimony - even from those whose lives peaked in WW II - exposes the irony of the phrase. First witness is "Hawaiian"-Californian John Garcia: in December 1941, as a pipefitter apprentice at Pearl Harbor, he retrieved live and dead bodies from the water and hulls; his girlfriend was killed by misfired American shells, he petitioned FDR to get into service, then was asked his race (great-grandparents?) and, as "Caucasian," separated from "the other Hawaiians"; on Okinawa, "I'd get up each day and start drinking. . . . They would show us movies. Japanese women didn't cry. They accepted the ashes stoically. I knew different. They went home and cried." In that same lead-off section appear the Nisei, uprooted and interned; a child-witness to, and a-participant in, the hysteria; an American-born Japanese, trapped in Japan on a visit. One of the last sections has to do with the Bomb. In an Indiana farm kitchen, Terkel talks with Bill Harney, radar operator on the plane that bombed Nagasaki. In a New York hotel lobby, he talks to Marnie Seymour who, with her husband, worked at Oak Ridge. "Out of the eighteen couples at the motel we lived in, most have never been able to have children. We are rather fortunate. We have four children. Two have birth defects." (Later, living in "very swish" New Canaan, she'd see the Hiroshima Maidens, brought over by Norman Cousins, at the supermarket.) There are several things to be said about Terkel, and his material. He has sought out people with real, unpredictable, history-brushing (sometimes history-revising) stories - but also persons whose experiences could be called typical, who become archetypal (like Chicago business executive Robert Ramos, "the skinny nineteen-year-old kid who's gonna prove that he can measure up"). He has a light intermix, too, of onlookers and leaders - yielding comments from both Pauline Kael and a retired admiral on the vacuousness of WW II films (but contrast, as well, between Kael's approval of The Clock and a war bride's contempt). He doesn't, however, construct his groupings mechanically, to make obvious points: blacks, for instance, turn up everywhere; under the rubric "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" we hear only from Marine Andrews; pronouncements on Vietnam differ, one after another Pacific veteran attests to gratitude for the Bomb. What is inescapable, though, is the recognition of war as brutal, and brutalizing; the reservations about "the Good War" utterable only in Vietnam-and-after retrospect. (Kirkus Reviews)
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I liked this book because it is written as if you are asking a relative what they did during the war. No one's story is too long, unlike my relatives who go on and one. (That's the author's trimmimg.) Yet I was fastinated. There are lots of big piture histories and if you know that history, fitting in the scene from a person on the ground is really very interesting. It's the why we fought, not for your country, but rather once on the line, not to let your buddies down. The feeling of regret when you finally meet the enemy and he looks just like you.
Anyway I'd read "Working" by S.Turkel and liked it. This books is written in the same style.
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This is a fine book. It helps the reader understand what the war was like for the common folk during the great struggle against freedom's enemies.
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This book gives the reader an opportunity to see what WW II was like on an INDIVIDUAL basis, rather than concentrating on "the big picture" or the performance of a unit as a whole. While I found many of the stories compelling, I felt that others were irrelevent and detracted from the book.
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Meet all kinds of people who had the courage to be honest.
This book helped me understand myself and my parents' generation in ways I never considered possible. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. August 1999 veröffentlicht
A series of short true stories of WWII
I found this easy to read. The book presented many aspects of the time. Some peoples accounts of famous events like Pearl Harbour were fresh and relevant. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Oktober 1998 von Donal Fenlon
This book really opens up your eyes
This book really stands on its head any conventional idea of the Second World War as a simple struggle of good against evil. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
The Good War captivates, one true story after another
The Good War gives one a taste of what is was like to grow up and live during the war, from all kinds of perspectives: soldiers, mothers, leaders, survivors, victims and heroes. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Februar 1998 veröffentlicht
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