Ebook: The Greatest Generation
Author: Brokaw Tom
- Tags: Biography & Autobiography, History, Military, Nonfiction, World War 1939-1945, Electronic books, Personal narratives, Ebook, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives American
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: Portland;Or
- Edition: Version 1
- Language: English
- epub
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great ...
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