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    <body><![CDATA[The views from around the world made me feel connected as brothers and sisters. The world is smaller than we know. How could we fight so much? We all cope as humans do with,adversity.   <br/>This book is a treasure and a must read for anyone studying WW II One must know the whole story. <br/>A mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71048786">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like &quot;A People's History...&quot;, this is a book that you might expect to read in a history class.  Actually, I did have to read it for a history class.  But I found it to be a great read, terribly informative, and Terkel (like Zinn) brings you into the complicated human and moral issues of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43529763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A brutally painful read but it should be required reading for everyone.... While I expected this to be hard to read I wasn't prepared (how naive of me) for the racism - toward our own soldiers (of color), by our own country, by our own soldiers. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not objective about the late great Studs Terkel.  I miss him.  Why couldn't he have stuck around another 50 years or so?  Here is another example where Terkel lets the voices of other people shine through.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a good book about the second world war. done in an oral history, terkel allows the people to speak for themselves and just records their experiences. it was a moving and profound book. i liked it a lot.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This may well be my favorite book on WWII.  A perspective that has since become poular, but Studs was one of the first to make oral history popular.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Studs Terkel is the definitive oral historian, and this is one of the most masterful works on the Second World War ever written.  A detail often missed is the fact that he put &quot;The Good War&quot; in parentheses in the title, to reflect that there is no such thing as a good war, no matter how ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17790452">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone has a great drinking story they love to tell, this is that story from dozens of interesting and boring people.<br/>]]></body>
    
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