This volume, by which the mythical American reporter Studs Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize, is a unique testimony not only of the experience of the war, but of his extraordinary ability as an interviewer. In what People magazine has described as "a splendid epic story of the Second World War," Terkel expands his scope of writing to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. Since it was written surely the best witnesses of the Second World War will have disappeared to a large extent, that is why the 'good' war will remain a living memory of what happened. Terkel captures a particularly large and impressive chorus of voices on her recorder. The result is a portrait of a national experience, drawn from the words of the men and women who lived it: infantry soldiers, admirals, nurses, defense workers, bureaucrats and conscientious objectors. All these pr...read more