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Country United States Publication date 1984 Pages 589 Originally published 1984 Page count 589 Publisher Pantheon Books | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 0-394-53103-5 Genre Military history | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Similar Studs Terkel books, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners, History books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"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.
Contents
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.
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Literary significance and reception
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."
References
The Good War Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA