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An oral history of world war ii enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Written by studs terkel, the book is still considered a classic of oral history. With this volume terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. Civil rights leaders you wont read about in history books. Terkel takes readers on a journey from the first bombings of pearl harbor to the excitement of war to the horrors of concentration camps to the. It is hard to see how any reader now or then can fail to benefit from its 600 pages. Unlike traditional history, which tends to rely on written records and other material artifacts like works of art and literature or archaeological remains, oral histories collect information about past. It won the pulitzer prize for non fiction and rightly so.
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Terkels landmark oral history of the second world war. From a pipe fitters apprentice at pearl harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic. It told the story of the war through the testimony of key participantsfrom civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. The richest and most powerful single document of the american experience in world war ii the boston globe. Like most of his other books, this too was a best seller. The references were to enemy soldiers as well as our own.
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