Home Front: North Carolina During World War II
- ISBN-10
- 0813064090
- ISBN-13
- 9780813064093
- Series
- Home Front
- Category
- North Carolina
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-28
- Author
- Julian M. Pleasants
Description
Julian Pleasants offers a grassroots view of World War II's extraordinary impact on the homefront by focusing on the myriad ways, large and small, that the war changed the lives of average citizens. Using oral histories, interviews, and newspaper accounts, Pleasants connects family-level decisions to fundamental social, economic, industrial, and military growth that helped move the Tar hell state toward a more progressive future.
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