"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II
"The Good War" won the Pulitzer Prize. "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. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781595587596
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- World War IIOral historyAmerican experience of war
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1985)
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