Montgomery in the Good War : Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

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Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was trans...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, Wesley Phillips
Other Authors: Cronenberg, Allen, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions
Social aspects.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Alabama > Montgomery.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Alabama > Montgomery.
Alabama > Montgomery.
Montgomery (Ala.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Montgomery (Ala.) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II. The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female, those who fought in Europe and the Pacific and those who stayed on the home front. Newton follows Montgomerians chronologically through the war from P.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9780817384876

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