Author:Tom Brokaw
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This was a generation united by common values - by duty, honour, courage, service and love of family and country. Here you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear ex-President George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. And you'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. In the spirit of Band of Brothers, The Greatest Generation tells the stories of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events - individuals united by a common purpose - working, living and dying in the service of their country.
An established classic ... accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures
—— D. J. EnrightA compelling new book based on diaries and eye-witness accounts
—— Daily MailWeaves together the memories of those who were intimately involved in the politics and planning of war and those so-called ordinary men and women who would also bear its privations and dangers for nearly six years
—— History TodayGas-proof dog kennels, fines for striking matches, intimate liaisons in the blackout - the Home Front vividly recalled by ordinary Britons
—— Daily MailExceptional...Written like the very best thriller, it draws the reader into the exclusive world of the combat crew in a unique and truly gripping way
—— John NicholVulcan 607 deserves to become an aviation classic
—— Len DeightonOne helluva great flying story. The gripping narrative reads like a suspense thriller, yet every word is true
—— Stephen CoontsAbsolutely riveting ... takes you right into the planning rooms and cockpits ... Don't miss this one!
—— Dale BrownVulcan 607 grips like a two-spar fin torsion box structure, whatever your gender
—— Evening StandardRowland White tells this splendid story with panache
—— Daily TelegraphAll politicians need to read honest accounts of war - at no time more than now - and Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is one of the very best
—— David Cameron, Observer, Books of the YearA vivid account of a rollercoaster tour of duty . . . testosterone-charged, expletive-splattered
—— Phil Jacobson, Daily MailA compelling read . . . Hennessey's book ought to be read by all officers that have yet to experience combat . . . He has written an important portrait of contemporary warfare and the nature of battle - a portrait that can claim a line of descent from Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
—— Will Pike, British Army ReviewAn honest acknowledgment of the darkness within us, of the unwelcome emotions that combat can bring about ... Smart and funny ... The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a humdinger
—— Jonathan Yardley , Washington PostThere have been many books about the Battle of Britain but few as exhaustive - and readable - as this scholarly account
—— Choice MagazineFacts and figures say a great deal, but the most compelling accounts come from those who featured in the battle. Like any good author, Holland allows the participants to tell the story in their own words
—— The Good Book Guide
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