I Have Seen War

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I Have Seen War is a sampling of the sights and sounds and smells of World War II. These vivid stories—twenty-five fiction and nonfiction—are for those who have not seen war at firsthand, those born during and since the war years. These realistic accounts will also appeal to those who saw it all, who were there. To those who stayed at home and wresded with ration books, and swing shifts, assembly lines and the mad push at the end of the month to meet and surpass production quotas, these stories will bring back warm memories, and perhaps an inner resolution that it must not happen again.
Dorothy Sterling knows the mind and heart of the young American adult, young in age or young in heart. She has arranged the selections so that when they are read in sequence they give a chronological picture of the Second World War, beginning with the first section, I Heard Bombs Drop ('That Day of Pearl Harbor"), to the very end with Everybody Is Dead ("We of Nagasaki"). Norman Corwin's... Tovább

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I Have Seen War is a sampling of the sights and sounds and smells of World War II. These vivid stories—twenty-five fiction and nonfiction—are for those who have not seen war at firsthand, those born during and since the war years. These realistic accounts will also appeal to those who saw it all, who were there. To those who stayed at home and wresded with ration books, and swing shifts, assembly lines and the mad push at the end of the month to meet and surpass production quotas, these stories will bring back warm memories, and perhaps an inner resolution that it must not happen again.
Dorothy Sterling knows the mind and heart of the young American adult, young in age or young in heart. She has arranged the selections so that when they are read in sequence they give a chronological picture of the Second World War, beginning with the first section, I Heard Bombs Drop ('That Day of Pearl Harbor"), to the very end with Everybody Is Dead ("We of Nagasaki"). Norman Corwin's
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"On a Note of Triumph" is a bitter and dramatic climax to this unusual collection.
All but two of the selections come from men and women who were on the battlefield while the action was going on; but they are not the tales of conquering heroes. They are about ordinary people — GI's, housewives, a Russian girl, a Chinese boy—people who were caught up in the biggest and bloodiest war—and we hope the last. Vissza