San Antonio College Library

This is the story of a war hero, a combat correspondent and a floozy (married to the war hero). The hero, a clean cut all American boy, becomes a friend of correspondent and, when the writer goes home on leave, calls on the war hero's parents and his wife. He finds that the wife is involved with another man and is planning to leave him. The parents are somewhat aware of the situation, but are hiding it from their son. Then the correspondent returns...

Each of these 15 volumes covers a period and campaigns in the Pacific, Atlantic and North African waters during World War II. It was Morison's aim to show what the U.S. Navy accomplished in the greatest of all wars and how it was done. The story, in the main, is one of fighting; that is what the Navy is for and what its entire effort was directed toward. But the author included enough space to strategic discussions, planning, organization, and logistics...

"It was the last of the 'good wars.' Roosevelt was president, Hitler was the enemy, the Depression was over, and Americans were united with a common goal on which to focus their attention, their energies, and their hate. The World War II years were a special time in our history and we have never been quite the same since. In the decades since the war, nostalgia has inevitably seeped in to replace the facts of history. based on interviews across the...

A narrative history from 1938 until the country entered the war on Dec. 7, 1941, spiced by personal memoirs.

Sequel to American foreign policy in the making, 1932-1940. Bibliographical footnotes.