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"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) is an oral history of World War II compiled by Studs Terkel. The work received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction . "The Good War" consists of a series of interviews with various men and women from across the globe who directly experienced the events leading up to, including ...
An Evergreen Protective Association volunteer recording an oral history at Greater Rosemont History Day. Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people ...
Collectively, these oral histories span over 80 years and provide first-person accounts of many dramatic incidents in U.S. diplomacy, such as the Iran hostage crisis, the Beirut and Nairobi bombings, accounts from World War II, the Vietnam War, and more recent narratives from 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Annually about 60 new interviews are ...
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) [1] was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
This non-fiction oral history book is made up of monologues of women in the war speaking about the aspects of World War II that had never been related before. [24] Another book, The Last Witnesses: the Book of Unchildlike Stories, describes personal memories of children during wartime. The war seen through women's and children's eyes revealed a ...
The historiography of World War II is the study of how historians portray the causes, conduct, and outcomes of World War II.. There are different perspectives on the causes of the war; the three most prominent are the Orthodox from the 1950s, Revisionist from the 1970s, and Post-Revisionism which offers the most contemporary perspective.
An account of the march from Stalag XX-B by Sandy Bethune of the 4th Btn, Cameron Highlanders, recorded by the Evanton Oral History Project in 1991-92; Stalag VIII-B Discussion Board; Lamsdorf Remembered; Norman Jardine's Diary of a Forced March of POWs, January-May 1945; B24.net; Evacuation of Fallinbostel POW camp - April 1945; catwalkchatt.com
Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II. Guilford, Connecticut: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0811769969. OCLC 1227916710. Henderson, Bruce (2017). Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler. New York: William Morrow.