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In VOLUME 9 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, 'Homefront/Women At War', we will take an often-overlooked view of the story of World War II. You will visit with the people on the homefront, from schoolkids navigating growing up during the Great Depression and the War, to the women on the factory floor and the armed services, newly independent but having to fight for their rights and later, their jobs, laying the seeds of societal change fo...

In VOLUME 9 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, 'Homefront/Women At War', we will take an often-overlooked view of the story of World War II. You will visit with the people on the homefront, from schoolkids navigating growing up during the Great Depression and the War, to the women on the factory floor and the armed services, newly independent but having to fight for their rights and later, their jobs, laying the seeds of societal change fo...

The acclaimed oral history featuring the American veterans of World War II. From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are the stories that we can't afford not to hear, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today. Narrative oral history of World War II. Veterans oral histories complied from The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vo...

Volume 2 in~THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fathers Saw' SERIES~At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Seventy years later, a history teacher tracks down the veterans with a connection to "Hometown, USA" who fought the war in the air over Europe, men who were tempered ...

~VOLUME 4 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fathers Saw' SERIES~ (Up the Bloody Boot-The War in Italy) From the deserts of North Africa to the mountains of Italy, the men and women veterans of the Italian campaign open up about a war that was so brutal, news of it was downplayed at home. By the end of 2018, fewer than 400, 000 of our WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform. But why is it that tod...

(2ND EDITION, REVISED and EXPANDED: COMBAT, CAPTIVITY, REUNION) WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH when you're rousted awake in the middle of a freezing German night to be death-marched across Germany?WHEN YOUR BUDDY STAGGERS AND FALLS by the side of the road, and no longer even knows who you are, do you keep moving to keep yourself alive? - "The next day we marched almost twenty hours, so now we were coming up to a town, now everybody is...

From the bloody beach at Omaha through the hedgerow country of Normandy and beyond, American veterans of World War II-Army engineers and infantrymen, Coast Guardsmen and Navy sailors, tank gunners and glider pilots-sit down with you across the kitchen table and talk about what they saw and experienced, tales they may have never told anyone before. World War II brought out the worst in humanity, but it also brought out the best. In these narrat...

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From the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc to a bridge too far in Holland, from the frozen Bulge and the dragons teeth of the Siegfried Line to the banks of the raging Rhine River, a dozen American veterans--Army rangers and replacement infantrymen, paratroopers, advance scouts and bridge engineers--sit down and tell all, a vanishing generation speaking to America today, in their own words."--Book jacket

THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in American history, the so-called 'Battle of the Bulge'.VOLUME 6 OF THE BEST SELLING 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' SERIESFrom the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, fr...

(2ND EDITION, REVISED and EXPANDED: COMBAT, CAPTIVITY, REUNION)WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH when you're rousted awake in the middle of a freezing German night to be death-marched across Germany?WHEN YOUR BUDDY STAGGERS AND FALLS by the side of the road, and no longer even knows who you are, do you keep moving to keep yourself alive?- "The next day we marched almost twenty hours, so now we were coming up to a town, now everybody is fallin...

Narrative oral history of World War II. North Africa, Italy, D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. European Theater. Veterans oral histories complied from The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vols. 4-6. Abridged.

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NARRATIVE WORLD WAR II ORAL HISTORY. PACIFIC THEATER, AIR WAR OVER EUROPE.WORLD WAR II VETERANS DESCRIBE THEIR EXPERIENCES DIRECTLY TO THE READER, COMPILATION EDITON OF THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW, VOLS. 1-3

Narrative oral history of World War II. North Africa, Italy, D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. European Theater. Veterans oral histories complied from The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vols. 4-6. Abridged.

THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in American history, the so-called 'Battle of the Bulge'.VOLUME 6 OF THE BEST SELLING 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' SERIESFrom the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, fr...

(2ND EDITION, REVISED and EXPANDED: COMBAT, CAPTIVITY, REUNION)WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH when you're rousted awake in the middle of a freezing German night to be death-marched across Germany?WHEN YOUR BUDDY STAGGERS AND FALLS by the side of the road, and no longer even knows who you are, do you keep moving to keep yourself alive?- "The next day we marched almost twenty hours, so now we were coming up to a town, now everybody is fallin...