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084948 |
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 126894 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Read by Ken Burns. |
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Duration: 8:49:48. |
| Summary |
The magnificent companion volume to the PBS series from master documentary film makers: The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced--and helped to win--the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; The war follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps--but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. -- Sound recordings.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States. -- Sound recordings.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. -- Sound recordings. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States. -- Sound recordings. |
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audiobook.
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| Added Author |
Burns, Ken, 1953-
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| Added Title |
War (Television program : 2007)
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| Other Form: |
Original 1415943117 (OCoLC)144607959 |
| ISBN |
9781415943120 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1415943125 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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