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1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
Winston Groom
Grove Press
April 2006
On Sale: April 3, 2006
480 pages
ISBN: 0802142508
EAN: 9780802142504
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Non-Fiction History
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.
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