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Published in USA
Apr 2006
336 pages
Genre: History, Current Affairs & Science
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From the famous BBC correspondent and television host comes a remarkably insightful and detailed firsthand portrait of America during the early days of World War II.
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"This volume may work better as a deftly constructed time capsule than as history" - Library Journal.
"A vivid, endlessly interesting view of the home front." - Kirkus.
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