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Myth and the Greatest Generation

Myth and the Greatest Generation

Kenneth Rose

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2007
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Historia
ISBN:
9780415956765

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Myth of the Greatest Generation examines American experiences in the military and on the home front, and delves into both personal and national issues, calling into question the dominant view of the war as ’the good war’, somehow better than any other conflict America’s been through.

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