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Daddy's gone to war : the Second World War in the lives of America's children /
Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1995, ©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--With its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 hom |
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| Notas: | "First published in 1993 by Oxford University Press, Inc. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1995"--Title page verso |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199772001 0199772002 0195096495 9780195096491 |