The Good War

The Good War": An Oral History of World War II 1.4 Book Four
(1984) is a telling of the oral history of World War II
Crime and Punishment
written by Studs Terkel. The work won the 1985 Pulitzer
Prize for General Non-Fiction. It is a rsthand account
A Turning Point
of people involved before, during and after the war.
Chilly Winds - Section with Telford Taylor among
The book mainly consists of interviews with people who
others.
lived the events that went from the beginning of Americas involvement in World War II, Pearl Harbor, to the
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? - This section
end.
has an excerpt from a conversation with a family of
survivors from the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.

Chapters

1.1

Remembrance of Things Past

Book One
1.5 Epilogue: Boom Babies and Other
New People

Sunday Morning.
A Chance Encounter

2 Literary signicance and reception

Tales of the Pacic

The Good Reuben James

Max Brooks said that The Good War inspired him to write
his novel World War Z. Brooks stated: Its an oral history
of World War II I read when I was a teenager and its sat
with me ever since. When I sat down to write World War
Z, I wanted it to be in the vein of an oral history.[1]

Rosie
Neighborhood Boys
Reections on Machismo -

1.2

3 References

Book Two

High Rank

[1] Exclusive Interview: Max Brooks on World War Z. Eat

My Brains!. October 20, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2008.

The Bombers and The Bombed

Growing Up: Here and There

4 External links

D-Day and All That

The Good War on Open Library at the Internet

Archive

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

1.3

Book Three

Sudden Money
The Big Panjandrum
Flying High
Up Front with Pen, Camera, and Mike
1

5 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

5.1

Text

The Good War Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_War?oldid=716942500 Contributors: Fnielsen, Delirium, Zoicon5,

Hmoleman00, Discospinster, Calton, Ian Moody, GregorB, Kbdank71, Feydey, Pseudomonas, Pegship, Vonfragino, SmackBot, Chris the
speller, TheArchivist, John, JoeBot, JayHenry, Cydebot, Rpogge, Mattisse, TonyTheTiger, BalfourCentre, Cgingold, Athene cunicularia,
Jeepday, Rcreshko, GrahamHardy, Den4, ClueBot, Fadesga, Zombie Hunter Smurf, Ben Ben, Yobot, LivingBot, CobraBot, AvicAWB
and Anonymous: 19

5.2

Images

File:German_helmet.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/German_helmet.svg License: Public domain

Contributors: Own work Original artist: F l a n k e r
File:Question_book-new.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Question_book-new.svg License: Cc-by-sa-3.0
Contributors:
Created from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. Based on Image:Question book.png created by User:Equazcion Original artist:
Tkgd2007

5.3

Content license

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0