greatest generation speaks

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The heartwarming New York Times bestseller by the author ofThe Greatest Generation"When I wrote about the men and women who came out of theDepression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices inWorld War II and then returned home to begin building the world wehave today ... it was my way of saying thank you. I was notprepared for the avalanche of letters and responses touched off bythat book."I had written a book about America, and now America was writingback.Tom Brokaw touched the heart of the nation with his towering #1bestseller The Greatest Generation, a moving tribute to those whogave the world so much -- and who left an enduring legacy ofheroism and grace. The Greatest Generation Speaks was born out ofthe vast outpouring of letters Brokaw received from people eager toshare their personal memories and experiences of a momentous timein America's history.These letters and reflections cross time, distance, andgenerations as they give voice to lives forever changed by war:eighty-year-old Clarence M. Graham, who recounts his harrowingexperience as a soldier captured by the Japanese -- and provides agripping eyewitness account of the dropping of the atomic bomb;Patricia Matthews Dorph, a soldier's daughter who shares the loveletters her parents exchanged during the war, a lasting legacy ofpassion, devotion, and enduring love; Rabbi Judah Nadich, the firstJewish chaplain to serve in the war; Lorraine Davis, a civilian whohelped form the Club of '44, a group of wartime wives who stillmeet today.From the front lines of battle to the back porches of belovedhometowns, The Greatest Generation Speaks brings to life the hopesand dreams of a generation who fought our most hard-won victories,and whose struggles and sacrifices made our future possible.

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