num_pages: 589
description: In The Good War Terkel presents the good, the bad, and the ugly memories of World War II from a perspective of forty years of after the events. No matter how gruesome the memories are, relatively few of the interviewees said they would have been better off without the experience. It was a central and formative experience in their lives. Although 400,000 Americans perished, the United States itself was not attacked again after Pearl Harbor, the economy grew, and there was a new sense of world power that invigorated the country. Some women and African Americans experienced new freedoms in the post war society, but good life after World War II was tarnished by the threat of nuclear war.
language: English
title: The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
titlecomplete: The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
genres: Military Fiction, History, World War II, Biography, Memoir, American History, Military History, War, Oral History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4334
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: The New Press