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Over 150,000 troops landed on the five beaches of D-Day, with over
20,000 reported casualties across both sides. June 6, 1944 will be
a day forever remembered in history. The story of D-Day has been
told on countless occasions, and is an event that reverberates
through time as one of the most pivotal moments in our history.
"Everything We Have" tells the personal stories of the people
involved in Operation Overlord, in their own words. Using rare
documents, artifacts and first-hand accounts from The US National
WWII Museum's official archives, you can gain a rare insight into
the thoughts and feelings of those soldiers who landed on the
beaches of Normandy.
Ours To Fight For relies on oral testimony and allows readers to
understand the story of the twentieth centurys greatest conflict in
gripping, first-person detail. Soldiers like Bernard Branson wanted
those sons of bitches to know that a Jew was bombing them; others,
like Jack Scharf, just couldnt face it when they were confronted
with the atrocities of the Holocaust. Marine reservist Evelyn
Schecter Perlman put aside her career as a legal secretary and
warned her older sisters, If youre waiting for me to get married,
dont do it. The twelve stories presented here are told in the
veterans own words, capturing the immediacy and spontaneity of oral
testimony. The volume also contains new essays on the Jewish
experience in World War II by scholars Jay M. Eidelman, Bonnie
Gurewitsch, and William L. ONeill.
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to
Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary
of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that
marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the
beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this
anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to
their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all
they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the
fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to
understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It
is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever
produced."
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 America. This generation was united not only by a
common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy,
courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all,
responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people
whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through
war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting
and useful lives and the America we have today.
"At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have
been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the
workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions
possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy,
Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the
call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless
military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the
hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start,
but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won
the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and
short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of
rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in
record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation,
the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of
them to attend college than any society had ever educated,
anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art,
industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of
history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and
productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally
modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many
cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they
didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because
everyone else was doing it too.
"This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men
and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American
family portrait album of the greatest generation."
In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up
during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the
fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his
hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air
Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of
the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military
information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, "I learned
about life." You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in
medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling
careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet
Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly
formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired
Old Men Eating Out), friends for life.
Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll
relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people
of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary
times forged the values and provided the training that made a
people and a nation great.
The corporal was left for dead, along with the 11 others of his
squad, after a German mortar attack in the freezing, unforgiving
mountains of northern Italy on December 7, 1944. But hours after
the Nazi infantry had retreated, one member of the American army's
Graves Registration Unit picking up the corpses, turned over a body
in a ditch and called to his officer, "Hey, this one's breathing."
It was 20-year-old Lou Brissie, from the small town of Ware Shoals,
South Carolina. He was taken to a makeshift medical tent behind the
front line and told that with such extensive damage his left leg
would have to be amputated to save his life. He pleaded with the
medics: "Please, you can't take my leg off. I'm a pitcher. I've
been promised a chance to pitch in the big leagues." He explained
that he had a letter from Connie Mack, owner-manager of the A's, as
proof. By a series of remarkable circumstances, including a
talented doctor in the major U.S. hospital in Naples where Brissie
was transported, and his being the first recipient in the
Mediterranean theater of the new wonder drug penicillin, his
leg--though in shreds--was indeed saved. The decorated corporal
couldn't walk on his own strength for nearly a year and would
undergo upwards of 23 operations. He eventually began to throw a
baseball while on crutches. All the time, he kept dear the dream of
pitching in the major leagues. Not only did he realize that dream,
but in virtually implausible, genuinely inspirational pursuit of
his goal, the left-handed Lou Brissie--wearing a huge brace on his
left, partially immobile leg and now a strike-out ace--made the
1949 American League All-Star team on merit, along with such stars
as Joe DiMaggio, TedWilliams, and Bob Feller.
Former NASCAR president, chairman, and CEO William Clifton
France--known to most people at Bill France Jr.--is remembered and
revered as the man who followed his visionary father at the helm of
NASCAR, in the process becoming a visionary himself as he guided
NASCAR to unprecedented levels of popularity. The biography covers
Bill Jr.'s role in NASCAR's formative years; his assumption of the
NASCAR presidency, replacing his father; the sports' explosion
under his leadership; his courageous battle with cancer throughout
the last decade of his life; and his final role, as NASCAR vice
chairman and main advisor to NASCAR's third generation leader, his
son, Chairman and CEO Brian France.
The magic and majesty of America's greatest western fly-fishing
rivers. "Flywater" brings us to the iconic creeks, springs,
freestone rivers, and tailwaters that make the American West the
world's premier destination for fly fishing. Grant McClintock's
first book struck a chord with fishermen, and fifteen years later
he takes the reader back to these fabulous places--from the storied
Henry's Fork to the Yellowstone to the Thompson River in British
Columbia. With extraordinary new photography and wisdom, McClintock
revisits these home waters and discovers countless others as well.
"Flywater" is a gallery of moments and places. From Idaho and
Montana to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, McClintock's
rich photography of trout and steelhead waters surrounded by
beautiful Western landscapes creates a compelling journey that the
reader, whether fisherman or non-fisherman, will thoroughly enjoy.
For the serious fly fisherman, this is an album of shared
experiences. For the uninitiated, it is an artfully crafted
guidebook to an exotic new world that really does exist on the
streams and rivers of the American West.
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to
Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary
of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that
marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the
beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this
anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to
their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all
they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the
fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to
understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It
is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever
produced."
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 America. This generation was united not only by a
common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy,
courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all,
responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people
whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through
war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting
and useful lives and the America we have today.
"At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have
been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the
workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions
possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy,
Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the
call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless
military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the
hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start,
but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won
the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and
short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of
rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in
record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation,
the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of
them to attend college than any society had ever educated,
anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art,
industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of
history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and
productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally
modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many
cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they
didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because
everyone else was doing it too.
"This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men
and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American
family portrait album of the greatest generation."
In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up
during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the
fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his
hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air
Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of
the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military
information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, "I learned
about life." You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in
medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling
careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet
Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly
formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired
Old Men Eating Out), friends for life.
Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll
relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people
of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary
times forged the values and provided the training that made a
people and a nation great.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Father Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit
priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development
and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
""A great many kids in my neighborhood don't plan their futures;
they plan their funerals."" ""G-Dog and the Homeboys"" presents the
story of Boyle's unconventional ministry and its extraordinary
successes. In this expanded, updated edition, Celeste Fremon has
returned to East L.A. to report on gang members she first profiled
fifteen years ago. Using their individual stories as models, she
examines what policy makers should know about gang intervention
now, years later.
Read Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Large Print.
* All Random House Large Print Editions are published in 16-point type
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced." 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 America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.
"At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of them to attend college than any society had ever educated, anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art, industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because everyone else was doing it too.
"This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American family portrait album of the greatest generation." In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, "I learned about life." You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired Old Men Eating Out), friends for life. Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.
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