The war comes to Plum Street / Bruce C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Bruce C., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Indiana--New Castle.

World War, 1939-1945.

New Castle (Ind.)--Biography.

New Castle (Ind.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This remains a superb story. Bruce C. Smith has a wonderful eye for detail and a compelling perspective and voice. We care about this place and the people who live here."" -- James H. Madison, author of Wendell Willkie: Hoosier Internationalist and A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America The War Comes to Plum Street brings to life the Second World War through the eyes of a small group of neighbors from a Midwestern town. Bruce C. Smith presents their stories just as they happened

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Migration and a New Start in the 1920's; 2 Coping with Hard Times in the 1930's; 3 The Slow Pull Upward, Late 1930's; 4 Into the Storm, 1939-1941; 5 Duty Calls Every Citizen, 1942; 6 Bearer of Bad News, 1942; 7 Urgent Preparation, 1943; 8 Together, and Alone, 1943; 9 Despair and Bitter Hope, 1944; 10 Invasion, 1944; 11 Will It Never End? 1945; 12 We'll Meet Again, 1945; Epilogue; Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07147-5

9786612071478

0-253-11141-2

OCLC:

475993060