The Good War

“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II (1984) is an oral history of World War II compiled by Studs Terkel. The work received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.^{[citation needed]}

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“The Good War” consists of a series of interviews with various men and women from across the globe who directly experienced the events leading up to, including, and following the Second World War.^{[citation needed]}

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The book’s chapters and subchapters, with the names and topics of the subjects involved, are as follows:

• “Sunday Morning”—John Garcia, Ron Veenker, Dennis Keegan, Peter Ota, Mayor Tom Bradley, Yuriko Hohri, Frank Keegan
• “A Chance Encounter”—Robert Rasmus, Richard M. (Red) Prendergast
• “Tales of the Pacific” — E. B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge, Maurice E. (Jack) Wilson, Robert Lekachman, Peter Bezich, Anton Bilek[1]
• “The Good Reuben James“—Bill Bailey, David Milton
• “Rosie”—Peggy Terry, Pauline Kael, Sarah Killingsworth, Evelyn Fraser, Dellie Hahne, Betty Basye Hutchinson[2]
• “Neighborhood Boys” — Mike Royko, Mayor Tom Bradley, Paul Pisicano, Mickey Ruiz, Jack Short, Dempsey Travis, Don McFadden, Win Stracke, Johnny DeGrazio
• “Reflections on Machismo”—John H. Abbott, Roger Tuttrup, Ted Allenby

• “High Rank” — Admiral Gene LaRocque, General William Buster
• “The Bombers and The Bombed” — John Ciardi, Akira Miuri, John Kenneth Galbraith, Eddie Costello and Ursula Bender, Jean Wood
• “Growing Up: Here and There”—John Baker, Sheril Cunning, Yasuko Kurachi Dower, Galatea Berger, Werner Burkhardt,[3]^{[circular reference]} Jean Bartlett, Oleg Tsakumov, Marcel Ophuls
• “D-Day and All That”—Elliott Johnson, Joe Hanley, Charles A. Gates, Timuel Black, Rosemary Hanley, Dr. Alex Shulman,[4] Frieda Wolf
• “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” — Maxene Andrews

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