Audio Book Description:
The individuals featured in this audiobook are not historians or scholars. They are ordinary men and women who experienced-and helped towin-the most devastating war inhistory,in which between 50 to 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of fourtowns-Luverne, Minnesota;Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama-THE WAR follows more than forty people from 1941 to1945. Woven largely fromtheir memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome alwaysin doubt. The iconic events are here,but we also move among prisoners of war, defense workers and schoolchildren,and families who struggled simply to stay together. An intimate, profoundlyaffecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world, THE WAR captures the American experience of World War II throughthe words and deeds, thoughtsand feelings of those who made history on the battlefields andon the home front.
