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Soldier from the war returning

the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II

by Childers, Thomas

2009 340 pages eng

One of our great national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in World War II. The Greatest Generation, we're told, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with rebuilding their lives. Here, historian Thomas Childers …

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