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Alabama
Alabama WWII civilian life
American South wartime transformation
American wartime culture
Author_Allen Cronenberg
Author_Wesley Newton
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Civilian experience
Community resilience
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Historical memoir
Historical nonfiction WWII
Historical vignettes
Local history
Local history World War II
Montgomery
Montgomery Alabama 1940s
Montgomery Alabama World War II
Montgomery wartime history
Oral history
Patriotism and sacrifice
Race and class in Montgomery
Race and class in the South
Social change
Southern cities during WWII
Southern history
Southern identity
Southern United States WWII
Wartime transformation
Wesley Phillips Newton book
World War II home front
WWII historical accounts Montgomery
WWII home front America
WWII impact on American cities
WWII memoirs and oral history
Product details
- ISBN 9780817356323
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2010
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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 Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima as they experience patriotism, draft and enlistment, rationing, scarcity drives, and the deaths of loved ones. His use of small vignettes based on personal recollections adds drama and poignancy to the story. Montgomery in the Good War is an important reminder that wars are waged at home as well as abroad and that their impact reverberates well beyond those who fight on the front lines. Those who came of age during the war will recognise themselves in this moving volume. It will also be enlightening to those who have lived in times of relative peace.
