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"When Dreams Came True is the inspiring history of how millions of World War II veterans and their families achieved the American dream - an education, a home, a stable and profitable career, and ownership of their own business. More than any other law, the GI Bill was responsible for the post-World War II explosion in college graduates, the education of leaders of the civil rights movement, the growth and dominance of the suburbs, and the proliferation...
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This study describes not only what happened from the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the surrender of Germany eleven months later, but why it happened. While an enormous amount has been written about this campaign, most of it focuses on a single army or an individual battle. Levine stresses a truly integrated approach that combines both strategy and tactics and covers the land, sea, and air efforts of both Allies and Axis. Levine deals extensively...
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An English professor in a small Texas town, William A. Owens in 1944 did what many younger men had done before him: he enlisted to serve his country in its second World War. Assigned to serve with the Counter Intelligence Corps in the Philippines, Owens soon found himself at the very heart of the action, not only experiencing the daily life of a soldier but, because of his duties as an intelligence agent, playing a part in the "big picture" of the...
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"During a brief thirteen-month period in 1944-45, 5,589 persons, one in every fourteen American citizens of Japanese descent, gave up their citizenship in the land of their birth. Most lived in Tule Lake Segregation Center, one of the ten concentration camps (euphemistically called relocation centers) created by the United States government to house its resident West Coast Japanese population at the beginning of World War II."--Author's preface
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