Description: See photos TIME Presents LIFE: Our Finest Hour - The Triumphant Spirit of America's World War II Generation Life magazine was only one of many American publications that fielded battlefront correspondents during World War II, but it boasted an uncommonly talented roster of writers and photographers, among them Theodore White, Robert Capa, and Margaret Bourke-White. Their images and reports brought home to American readers the horrors of that distant war, from George Strock's extraordinary photograph of dead American marines on a New Guinea beach to shocking views of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Life's editors also took pains to document the war at home, publishing stories about the contributions of women industrial workers to the war effort (in 1943, the magazine reported, 65 percent of American aircraft-production workers were women) and on the morale-building efforts of Hollywood stalwarts such as Carole Lombard and Bob Hope...
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults, Ages 9-12
Inscribed: No
Edition: Collector's Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Picture Book
Unit Type: lb
Literary Movement: Renaissance
Era: 1940s
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated, Dust Jacket
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Our Finest Hour : the Triumphant Spirit of the World War II Generation
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Texas Instruments Inc. Books
Publication Year: 2002
Topic: General, World
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 43.6 Oz
Author: Life Education Staff
Item Length: 11.2 in
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover
