A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it PDF
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Table of Contents ALSO EDITED BY MARC FAVREAU Title Page Preface Editor’s Note Part I - Beginnings: Pearl Harbor “December 7, 1941” JOHN GARCIA ANTON BILEK “December 8, 1941” ITABASHI KŌSHŪ YOSHIDA TOSHIO NODA MITSUHARU “Austin, Texas, December 9, 1941” AUSTIN, TEXAS Part II - The War in Europe “War” I II III “Flight” “A Turning Point” “The Bombers and the Bombed” “Return to Auschwitz” Part III - The U.S. Home Front “Trouble Coming” “A Sunday Evening” “Statement on Entering Prison” “Rosie” “Confronting the Holocaust” NOTES Part IV - The Pacific War “The Slaughter of an Army” “Tales of the Pacific” “An American Revolutionary” “One World or None” NIELS BOHR J.R. OPPENHEIMER “The Atomic Bomb” “A Terrible New Weapon” YAMAOKA MICHIKO SHIN BOK SU MATSUSHIGE YOSHITO Part V - Postwar “The War (Rough Draft)” “Refugees” Sources Copyright Page ALSO EDITED BY MARC FAVREAU Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (with Ira Berlin and Steven F. Miller) Series Preface Turning history on its head opens up whole new worlds of possibility. Once, historians looked only at society’s upper crust: the leaders and others who made the headlines and whose words and deeds survived as historical truth. In our lifetimes, this has begun to change. Shifting history’s lens from the upper rungs to the lower, we are learning more than ever about the masses of people who did the work that made society tick. Not surprisingly, as the lens shifts the basic narratives change as well. The history of men and women of all classes, colors, and cultures reveals an astonishing degree of struggle and independent political action. Everyday people played complicated historical roles, and they developed highly sophisticated and often very different political ideas from the people who ruled them. Sometimes their accomplishments left tangible traces; other times, the traces are invisible but no less real. They left their mark on our institutions, our folkways and language, on our political habits and vocabulary. We are only now beginning to excavate this multifaceted history. The New Press People’s History Series roams far and wide through human history, revisiting old stories in new ways, and introducing altogether new accounts of the struggles of common people to make their own history. Taking the lives and viewpoints of common people as its point of departure, the series reexamines subjects as different as the American Revolution, the history of sports, the history of American art, the Mexican Revolution, and the rise of the Third World. A people’s history does more than add to the catalogue of what we already know. These books will shake up readers’ understanding of the past—just as common people throughout history have shaken up their always changeable worlds. Howard Zinn Boston, 2000 Boston, 2000
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