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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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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 276 pages
- Contents
-
- 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 menace
- Part 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
- Isbn
- 9781595581662
- Label
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- Title
- A people's history of World War II
- Title remainder
- the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Marc Favreau
- Subject
-
- 1939-1945
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Erlebnisbericht
- Erlebnisbericht
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Biographies
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Récits personnels
- Historians
- Historians -- Interviews
- Historians -- Interviews
- Interviews
- Interviews
- Interviews
- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives
- Récits personnels
- Veterans
- Weltkrieg
- Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews
- collective biographies
- interviews
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Favreau, Marc
- Series statement
- A New Press people's history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Historians
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- Historians
- Veterans
- Weltkrieg
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Historians
- Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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 menace
- Part 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
- Control code
- 660546121
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- x, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781595581662
- Lccn
- 2011035288
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)660546121
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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 menace
- Part 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
- Control code
- 660546121
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- x, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781595581662
- Lccn
- 2011035288
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)660546121
Subject
- 1939-1945
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Erlebnisbericht
- Erlebnisbericht
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Biographies
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Récits personnels
- Historians
- Historians -- Interviews
- Historians -- Interviews
- Interviews
- Interviews
- Interviews
- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives
- Récits personnels
- Veterans
- Weltkrieg
- Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews
- collective biographies
- interviews
Genre
- Biography
- Erlebnisbericht
- Interviews
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- collective biographies
- interviews
- Récits personnels
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