false <![CDATA[1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175837076m/565159.jpg 565159 2 <div>From the author of <i>Forrest Gump</i> and <i>A Storm in Flanders</i> comes a riveting chronicle of America's most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand of warfare. Novelist and popular historian Winston Groom vividly re-creates the story of America's first year in World War II. To the generation of Americans who lived through it, the Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, and the defining events of that war were played out in the year 1942.<br><br>This account covers the Allies' relentless defeats as the Axis overran most of Europe, North Africa, and the Far East. But midyear the tide began to turn. America finally went on the offensive in the Pacific, and in the west the British defeated Rommel's panzer divisions at El Alamein while the U.S. Army began to push the Germans out of North Africa. By the year's end, the smell of victory was in the air. <i>1942</i>, told with Groom's accomplished storyteller's eye, allows us into the admirals' strategy rooms, onto the battle fronts, and into the heart of a nation at war.</div> 3363953 2005 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls total:18|5:5|4:5|3:7|2:1| 18 68 31 8 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 07:35:57 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 12:44:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 12:01:44 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 13:09:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 19:51:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 19:53:04 -0700 2009
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