| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Allen Cronenberg; 1. The City at the Start of the War; 2. The Advent of Pearl Harbor; 3. The Creation of Citizen Armed Forces; 4. Montgomerians Head Overseas; 5. The Emergence of the Home Front; 6. The Black Community in Montgomery and Abroad; 7. Life and Death at Home; 8. OVERLORD and Aftermath; 9. From the Bulge to Victory in Europe; 10. The End of the War; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Alabama -- Montgomery.
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Montgomery (Ala.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Montgomery (Ala.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Cronenberg, Allen, 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Newton, Wesley Phillips. Montgomery in the Good War : Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000 9780817310431 |
| ISBN |
9780817384876 (electronic book) |
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0817384871 (electronic book) |
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9780817356323 (print) |
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0817356320 (print) |
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0817310436 (acid-free paper) |
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9780817310431 |
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