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In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern…
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1 author picked The Greatest Generation as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Brokaw’s book popularized the term “Greatest Generation” for those who came of age during World War II. The book consists of stories of some 50 men, women, or couples who were representative of this generation. Some stories are of “famous” people, such as George Bush, but most of them are about ordinary people who “were not widely known outside their families or their communities.”
Reflective of this generation, these people interrupted their lives to answer the call to serve, got on with their lives when the war was over, were proud of their service, but rarely talked about the war…
From Royce's list on ordinary men and women in World War II.
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