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Four freedoms / John Crowley.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.R597 F68 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowley, John, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Airplane factories--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Airplane factories.
- Oklahoma.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 389 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, [2009]
- Summary:
- In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to war, the call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. To this purpose, a city has sprung up seemingly overnight in the windswept fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the B-30 Pax, the largest bomber ever built. Some men, but mostly women, many of whom have never operated a rivet gun or held a screwdriver, folk to this place eager to earn, to grow, to do their part. Many are away from home for the very first time, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. In the middle of nowhere they will live, work, and earn their own money, fearing for the safety of their absent fighting men as the world around them changes forever.--From publisher's description.
- ISBN:
- 9780061231506
- 0061231509
- OCLC:
- 262884360
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