The Good War
First edition
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| Author | Studs Terkel |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Military History |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books |
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Publication date
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1984 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 589 |
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| OCLC | 10753607 |
| 940.54/1273/0922 B 19 | |
| LC Class | D811.A2 G58 1984 |
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) is a telling of the oral history of World War II written by Studs Terkel. The work won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It is a firsthand account of people involved before, during and after the war.
The book mainly consists of interviews with people who lived the events that went from the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Pearl Harbor, to the end.
Max Brooks said that The Good War inspired him to write his novel World War Z. Brooks stated: "It's an oral history of World War II I read when I was a teenager and it's sat with me ever since. When I sat down to write World War Z, I wanted it to be in the vein of an oral history."
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