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Edition: Ballantine Books (Mass Market Paperback)
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Published: October 1985
Pages: 608
ISBN 10: 0345325680
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"The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two (1984) is a telling of the oral history of World War II written by Studs Terkel. The work won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It is a firsthand account of people involved before, during and after the war.

The book mainly consists of interviews with people who lived the events that went from the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Pearl Harbor, to the end.

Contents

Chapters

Book One

  • Sunday Morning
  • A Chance Encounter
  • Tales of the Pacific
  • The Good Reuben James
  • Rosie
  • Neighborhood Boys
  • Reflections on Machismo

Book Two

  • High Rank
  • The Bombers and The Bombed
  • Growing Up: Here and There
  • D-Day and All That
  • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Book Three

  • Sudden Money
  • The Big Panjandrum
  • Flying High
  • Up Front with Pen, Cameria, and Mike

Book Four

  • Crime and Punishment
  • A Turning Point
  • Chilly Winds - Section with Telford Taylor among others.
  • Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? - This section has an excerpt from a conversation with a family of survivors from the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Remembrance of Things Past

Epilogue: Boom Babies and Other New People

References

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