Wartime America
Wartime America

Author: John W. Jeffries

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1442276509

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Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, expanded coverage of World War II as the Good War, and the concept of “the Greatest Generation.”Jeffries paints a picture of a people emerging from the Great Depression and eager for a better life, yet often reluctant to abandon the touchstones of their past. Combining both an original interpretation and synthesis of recent scholarship, Wartime America offers students a concise exploration of the war’s transformative role in American life.

Labor and the Wartime State
Labor and the Wartime State

Author: James B. Atleson

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780252066740

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The United States labor movement can credit -- or blame -- policies and regulations created during World War II for its current status. Focusing on the War Labor Board's treatment of arbitration, strikes, the scope of bargaining, and the contentious issue of union security, James Atleson shows how wartime necessities and language have carried over into a very different post-war world, affecting not only relations between unions and management but those between rank and file union members and their leaders.

Strikes
Strikes

Author: Ross E. Harlan

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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The courage and sacrifices of the men and women who helped defeat fascism and preserve our basic freedoms are memorialized in this retelling of the role of the 323rd Bomb Group during World War II. Having served as Intelligence Officer and Executive Officer, the author provides firsthand details of the Groups training and achievements, starting at MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, in the summer of 42, where the pilots first learned to master their temperamental B-26 bombers. The narrative is supplemented by many photographs and a Scrapbook section including such supplemental materials as news clippings, military documents, obituaries, and a long, revealing letter by a special friend of the author who was one of the great pilots in the group.

War & Wartime Changes, the Transformation of Ar 1940-1945 (c)
War & Wartime Changes, the Transformation of Ar 1940-1945 (c)

Author: C. Calvin Smith

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781610754491

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This is a lively history of specific social, political, and economic changes that all-out war brought to the home front in mid-America. Drawing from letters to the editor in local and state papers, from editorials, from personal interviews, and from the manuscript collections left by state political leaders, Calvin Smith brings into focus the impact of wartime not only upon agricultural and business economics but also upon particular social groups and the lives of individuals.

Wartime
Wartime

Author: Edward Butts

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1459410998

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The First World War was the cause of dramatic changes in every Canadian community. What it meant to daily life becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario. The first months were the easiest, as young men rushed to enlist. Once news of casualties and deaths started arriving, the atmosphere changed drastically. Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy. Newspapers published fulsome obituaries which could not obscure the tragedy of their deaths. Tensions emerged — one compelling example being a secret military and police night-time raid on a Catholic seminary just outside the town, looking for young men hiding from conscription. With these stories, Edward Butts offers a compelling portrait of people trying to make sense of a war with little evident logic. His account helps explain why the cause of the League of Nations and efforts to ensure peace in the 1920s and 1930s were so powerful amongst Canadians who had learned about the real impact of wartime on ordinary people. Through the use of primary resources including articles from the local press, letters from overseas, and newsreels in the cinema, Butts captures the reality of the First World War for Canadians at home.