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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Delta Catalog: Book Release date: 2001-05-01 Media: Paperback Format: Bargain Price Number of pages: 448  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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Written on May 9, 2008 Summary: Eh, It's OK Not a lot here, but really, how hard would it have been to compile some couple-page biographies of heroes who served in WW2?  Written on April 6, 2008 Summary: Good ... I think Tom Brokaw should be applauded for writing this book. A lot of reviewers have commented the contents, which I will not say much. This is not a book that I can read in one-shot as it is a collate of several stories. Some people have complained about the book for lacking in substance. But, I think the beauty of the book is the "awareness" or appreciation created by these short stories. If people are intersted WWII history, they can always consult their history text books or some of non-fiction books devoted exclusively on the topics. I think the theme of this book is very different from those "well-researched" book. And, I think it will probably reach a wider audience as the book is an easy reading without some details that you will probably not remember after reading them. So, I will say, for someone who look for poetic writing, go to Shakespear. If someone look for exact facts/figures in WWII, go to their history text book. For those, who want to have a picture what the previous generation, it's a nice starting point.  Written on April 2, 2008 Summary: Profiting from a dying demographic There was no greatest generation. It is that simple. Brokaw's references to letters, interviews and primary sources give this book two stars, but the title "Greatest Generation" is stupid. It has caused people to carry around a ridiculous sense of pride about the ways that their lives were affected by this war. What I love most is that people think that this war helped establish a sense of ethics, and I love it even more that people think that today's society is supposed to conduct themselves in the same way as that great generation. Let me tell you something-- People went to jail in your day. People murdered. People cheated. People sinned, if you want to call it that. Divorce happened. And yet the "Greatest Generation" acts as if those days were just so great. Out of necessity, you fought a war, your wife built airplanes or grew vegetables in the backyard or collected scrap rubber. But when that war ended, your wife went back to being a mom, a nurse, a housewife. And once you were home, you worked a normal job. Brokaw gives examples of how small town kids went on to do great things, but it is not as if the "Greatest Generation" is still doing all the great things. They are dying and dead. Other small town kids are aspiring to be great and making lots of money and filling all sorts of important roles in society. Bill Gates is more wealthy than any of you, and he is also just a small town shmuck. Vietnam did not make him go off and do great things. If anything, he'd be mentally inept and on the street had he fought that war. There is a reason why people fought in World War II and why other people resisted wars like Vietnam. There was legitimacy to WWII, yet there was legitimacy behind resisting fighting in Korea, Vietnam, both Gulf Wars, and every contra, shadow war, and skirmish in between. Had we ignored the circumstances of any other war aside from WWII, the results would have had no affect on us as devastating as the wars themselves did. If anything, we should pity the so-called "Greatest Generation" for the fact that a number of them were drafted and had no choice but to stare at death. So, Greatest Generation, you did what you had to, but that doesn't make you great. And your sense of values is not paramount as to how the world should be. Since Rome was long ago, was that civilization greater? Is older better? I know when I am old I'll look back and think that people had better manners and worked harder and had respect for elders, but I'll look back at writing like Brokaw's and accept the reality. If anything, Tom Brokaw made you feel good about yourselves; you gave him your hard earned money, and your being hustled just goes to show that a baby boomer offshoot of your generation got the best of you by making you pay $10.95. Written on March 13, 2008 Summary: An inspiring read Tom Brokaw did a great job of showing how ordinary people faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges became extraodinary. Written on March 10, 2008 Summary: Great Book This wasn't the fastest ship in the world but it was shipped in great condition (which I am sure is difficult for a paper back) I love the book, I have read it several times before, just wanted to add it to my collection. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2001-05-01 | 2008-10-14 | 2007-05-15 | 2005-10-11 | 2005-05-11 | 2003-02-01 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Format | Bargain Price | - | - | - | - | - |
| Number of pages | 448 | 688 | 320 | 272 | 352 | 240 |
| Ean | - | 9780812975116 | 9780812975437 | 9780812975307 | 9781401359652 | 9780800793210 |
| Book Isbn | - | 0812975111 | 081297543X | 0812975308 | 1401359655 | 0800793218 |
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