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A people's history of World War II, the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it, edited by Marc Favreau

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Includes bibliographical references

contains biographical information

illustrations

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non fiction

A people's history of World War II

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edited by Marc Favreau

A New Press people's history

the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it

Presents interviews, photographs, letters, oral histories, stories, eyewitness accounts, and excerpts from historical writings from different perspectives on a wide variety of topics related to the Second World War

Part 1. Beginnings : Pearl Harbor -- Photo essay : "Pearl Harbor photographs" -- "December 7, 1941" : Studs Terkel interviews American witnesses to the Japanese attacks -- "December 8, 1941" : interviews with Japanese civilians and soldiers -- "Austin, Texas, December 9, 1941" : man-on-the-street interview following the attack on Pearl Harbor -- Part 2. The war in Europe -- "War" : historian Eric Hobsbawm reflects on the coming of war -- "Flight" : Elisabeth Freund, a German Jewish emigre, recounts her flight from Nazi Germany -- "A turning point" : Studs Terkel interviews Mikhail Nikolaevich Alexeyev, Russian author and editor, about his experiences as a Soviet soldier on the eastern front -- "The bombers and the bombed" : Studs Terkel interviews Eddie Costello and Ursula Bender about the Allied bombing of Frankfurt, Germany -- "Return to Auschwitz" : author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi is interviewed as he returns to Auschwitz after forty years -- Part 3. The U.S. home front -- "Trouble coming" : Nelson Peery describes the profound racial tensions that erupted in southern states as African American soldiers mobilized in large numbers -- "A Sunday evening" : Studs Terkel interviews Peter Ota, an American-born Japanese man who served in the American military -- Photo essay : "Manzanar" : Ansel Adams photographs an internment camp for Japanese Americans -- "Statement on entering prison" : David Dellinger issues a political statement on his status as a conscientious objector in 1943 -- "Rosie" : Studs Terkel interviews a woman who went to work in a factory during the war -- Photo essay : "Rosie the riveter" : from the office of war information archive -- "Confronting the Holocaust" : historian David Wyman interviews Hillel Kook, who led the effort in the U.S. to push American leaders to rescue European Jews -- Image essay : "Dr. Suess goes to war" : propaganda cartoons from Theodore Geisel on the Nazi menacePart 4. The Pacific war -- "The slaughter of an army" : Osawa Masatsugu relates his experiences as a Japanese soldier in New Guinea in 1943 -- "Tales of the Pacific" : Studs Terkel interviews E.B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge about the American experience of war in the Pacific -- "An American revolutionary" : Nelson Peery relates his experiences as an African American soldier in the fight against Japan -- "One world or none" : an excerpt from public statements by leading atomic scientists, warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons -- "The atomic bomb" : Studs Terkel talks with a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project -- "A terrible new weapon" : firsthand witnesses of Ground Zero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Part 5. Postwar -- "The war (rough draft)" : an account of Paris after the German occupation, by Marguerite Duras -- "Refugees" : poet Charles Simic remembers a life in transit in the aftermath of the German surrender