Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy..."
2. Washington at War
3. Industry at War
4. Keeping the Country Informed
5. The War Effort - Almost Everyone Was Involved
6. "Don't You Know There's a War On"?
7. Wives and Children
8. The Home Front
9. The Ultimate Cost of Victory
10. 1945 - The End
11. Aftermath
Index
Roy Hoopes spent some of the war years at home and some in the South Pacific. A career journalist and award-winning biographer, he has written many books including When the Stars Went to War- Hollywood and World War II and the recent novel, Our Man in Washington.
"Compelling." —New York Times
"Impressive and moving." —Los Angeles Times
"[An] endlessly surprising personal history." —United Press
International
"Hoopes interviewed nearly 200 Americans for this oral history of
the home front. Many of them speak wonderingly of an almost
innocent exhilaration triggered by World War II [that] showed
Americans something larger than themselves. This collection of
memories ranges over wartime Washington, the transformation of
industries, the families stumbling around in blacked-out
houses...hundreds of nostalgic oddments...Such a collage has an
effect of Whitmanesque tenderness." —Time Magazine
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