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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II

Door Thomas Childers

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#327489-XD21
Titel
Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II
Auteur
Childers, Thomas
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Boston/New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0618773681
ISBN13
9780618773688
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with the business of rebuilding their lives.

In this shocking and hauntingly beautiful book, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families—including his own—with a decades' worth of research to paint an entirely new picture of the war's aftermath. Drawing on government documents, interviews, oral histories and diaries, he reveals that 10,000 veterans a month were being diagnosed with psycho-neurotic disorder (now known as PTSD). Alcoho... (Lees verder)lism, homelessness, and unemployment were rampant, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate. Many veterans bounced back, but their struggle has been lost in a wave of nostalgia that threatens to undermine a new generation of returning soldiers.
Pagina's
340
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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