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Our Finest Hour: The Triumphant Spirit of America's World War II Generation
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• Portrays the personal side of war
• Covers some of the less well-known events of WWII's Home Front
• Includes 185 historic photographs
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• Not quite enough textual background/explanation
• Doesn't offer anywhere to go to get more information
• Wish it was longer
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"Our Finest Hour" offers a great photographic journey of America's WWII Home Front, but lacks the information to satisfy the deep cravings for knowledge it inspires.
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Hardcover, 192 pages, ISBN 1-883013-98-4
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Edited by Killian Jordan and includes an introduction by Bob Greene
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From the editors of LIFE magazine
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A Photographic Journey
Though the 185 photos that are spread throughout the book's 192 pages each tell a personal story, they also personify the feelings and experiences of thousands if not millions of other Americans. A husband and wife saying goodbye, letters written and received from loved ones across a sea, loneliness, and camaraderie depict life both in the war and on the home front.
The photos and text not only cover the commonly known events of the war, they also include women at war, black troops, Japanese-American internment camps, and a scientific study of starvation conducted in Minnesota (I hadn't known that one).
Our Finest Hour offers a fantastic photographic journey of World War II but lacks the text to make this a must-have WWII reference.
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