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The War

An Intimate History, 1941-1945

By Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns

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| Hardcover | 9780307262837

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The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.

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The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.

Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.

Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.

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  • The War By Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

    In the 1980s, Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns created what may be the most riveting and revolutionary documentary in television history, The Civil War. While many have tried to recapture this lightning in a bottle including Burns and Ward themselves they ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - THE WAR: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

    • Read an Excerpt Ken Burns revolutionized the television documentary. First it was “The Civil War,” then “Baseball” and “Jazz .” Each of these topics had been adequately covered in the past, but never to the extent of what has come to be known as th ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 480 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0307262839
  • ISBN-13: 9780307262837
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Pub date: Sep 11, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1806 mm x 1548 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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