xix, 345 pages : 23 cm

This history of World War II omits the "endless lists of battles, dates, and commanders" and focuses on the human side of the war.--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index

Greetings: moments to remember -- Camp life: you're in the army now -- Now we begin: canned goods gone bad -- Women at home, women at war: fighting for the right to be second class citizens -- The children of war: when daddy went away -- Rationing America: getting along with less -- Rendezvous with death: confidence gained, a generation lost -- Names and faces: a funny thing happened to me during the war -- Leaders who went to war: what did you do in the war, Mr. President? -- Kick 'em in the axis: Mussolini, Hitler, and all their jazz -- At war in the air: off we go into an even wilder blue yonder -- Weapons stranger than fiction: is this a gun I see before me? -- Submarines: more than just a sandwich -- Remembering Pearl Harbor: a world without peace -- Censorship: fighting the war in black and white -- A Big Mac attack: when an older solider [sic] was young -- POWs: prisoner mine, prisoner yours -- Reporters, writers, and photographers: don't shoot the messenger -- I spy, you spy: the few, the proud, the secret agents -- Frozen in time: a little bit of this, little bit of that -- Building the atomic bomb: trinity and bathtub row -- Uncle Sam wants you, maybe: don't ask, don't tell, don't want to know -- The crown jewels of war: to rise up and fight again -- The Holocaust: victims of war in all shapes, sizes, and religions

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