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1942
Winston Groom
其他書名
The Year That Tried Men's Souls
出版
Grove Press
, 2006-04-03
主題
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / United States / 20th Century
Political Science / Genocide & War Crimes
ISBN
0802142508
9780802142504
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sDVUcuAUCUwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the author of
Forrest Gump
and
A Storm in Flanders
comes a riveting chronicle of America's most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand of warfare. Novelist and popular historian Winston Groom vividly re-creates the story of America's first year in World War II. To the generation of Americans who lived through it, the Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, and the defining events of that war were played out in the year 1942.
This account covers the Allies' relentless defeats as the Axis overran most of Europe, North Africa, and the Far East. But midyear the tide began to turn. America finally went on the offensive in the Pacific, and in the west the British defeated Rommel's panzer divisions at El Alamein while the U.S. Army began to push the Germans out of North Africa. By the year's end, the smell of victory was in the air.
1942
, told with Groom's accomplished storyteller's eye, allows us into the admirals' strategy rooms, onto the battle fronts, and into the heart of a nation at war.