The Myth Of The Good War

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The Myth Of The Good War

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Author : Jacques R. Pauwels
language : en
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Release Date : 2002-10-25

The Myth Of The Good War written by Jacques R. Pauwels and has been published by James Lorimer & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-25 with History categories.

This book offers a fresh and provocative look at the role of the USA in World War II. It spent four months on the nonfiction bestseller lists in Europe when it was first published in Belgium in 2000.

The Good War

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Author : Studs Terkel
language : en
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
Release Date : 2011-07-26

The Good War written by Studs Terkel and has been published by New Press/ORIM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with History categories.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe). “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called “a splendid epic history” of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. “Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers.” —The New York Times Book Review “I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel’s book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling.” —Chicago Tribune “A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing.” —People

Looking For The Good War

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Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Release Date : 2021-11-30

Looking For The Good War written by Elizabeth D. Samet and has been published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.

Age of Gold -- Dead-Shot American Cowboys -- Thieves Like Us -- "War, What Is It Good For?" -- Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels -- Epilogue: Age of Iron.

The Good War In American Memory

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Author : John Bodnar
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01

The Good War In American Memory written by John Bodnar and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with History categories.

The “Good War” in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's meaning reveals that the idea of the "good war" was highly contested. Bodnar's comprehensive study of the disagreements that marked the American remembrance of World War II in the six decades following its end draws on an array of sources: fiction and nonfiction, movies, theater, and public monuments. He identifies alternative strands of memory—tragic and brutal versus heroic and virtuous—and reconstructs controversies involving veterans, minorities, and memorials. In building this narrative, Bodnar shows how the idealism of President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms was lost in the public commemoration of World War II, how the war's memory became intertwined in the larger discussion over American national identity, and how it only came to be known as the "good war" many years after its conclusion.

Myth And The Greatest Generation

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Author : Kenneth Rose
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13

Myth And The Greatest Generation written by Kenneth Rose and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.

Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is generally acknowledged. Issues of racial, labor unrest, juvenile delinquency, and marital infidelity were rampant, and the black market flourished. This book delves into both personal and national issues, calling into questions the dominant view of World War II as ‘The Good War’.

China S Good War

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Author : Rana Mitter
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15

China S Good War written by Rana Mitter and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with History categories.

A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history.” —Foreign Affairs “A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contemporary China.” —Peter Frankopan, The Spectator For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against Japan. But as the country has grown more powerful, a wide-ranging reassessment of the war years has been central to new confidence abroad and mounting nationalism at home. Encouraged by reforms under Deng Xiaoping, Chinese scholars began to examine the long-taboo Guomindang war effort, and to investigate collaboration with the Japanese and China’s role in the post-war global order. Today museums, television shows, magazines, and social media present the war as a founding myth for an ascendant China that emerges as victor rather than victim. One narrative positions Beijing as creator and protector of the international order—a virtuous system that many in China now believe to be under threat from the United States. China’s radical reassessment of its own past is a new founding myth for a nation that sees itself as destined to shape the world. “A detailed and fascinating account of how the Chinese leadership’s strategy has evolved across eras...At its most interesting when probing Beijing’s motives for undertaking such an ambitious retooling of its past.” —Wall Street Journal “The range of evidence that Mitter marshals is impressive. The argument he makes about war, memory, and the international order is...original.” —The Economist

War Before Civilization

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Author : Lawrence H. Keeley
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 1996

War Before Civilization written by Lawrence H. Keeley and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.

Offering a devastating rebuttal to the comfortable myth that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant, Lawrence H. Keeley's groundbreaking "War Before Civilization" debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization. 16 illustrations.

The Best War Ever

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Author : Michael C. C. Adams
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1994

The Best War Ever written by Michael C. C. Adams and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.

"Most valuable to students and general readers who have not given World War II serious study but who are interested in achieving a better understanding of America's experience in what Dwight D. Eisenhower called 'the Great Crusade.'" -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning

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Author : Chris Hedges
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2014-04-08

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning written by Chris Hedges and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with History categories.

General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up close -- in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America -- and he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.

The Soviet Myth Of World War Ii

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Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-15

The Soviet Myth Of World War Ii written by Jonathan Brunstedt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with History categories.

Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.