Montgomery in the good war : portrait of a southern city, 1939-1946 / Wesley Phillips Newton ; introduction by Allen Cronenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Wesley Phillips.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Alabama--Montgomery.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Alabama--Montgomery.

Montgomery (Ala.)--History--20th century.

Montgomery (Ala.).

Montgomery (Ala.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II. The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female, those who fought in Europe and the Pacific and those who stayed on the home front. Newton follow

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Allen Cronenberg; 1. The City at the Start of the War; 2. The Advent of Pearl Harbor; 3. The Creation of Citizen Armed Forces; 4. Montgomerians Head Overseas; 5. The Emergence of the Home Front; 6. The Black Community in Montgomery and Abroad; 7. Life and Death at Home; 8. OVERLORD and Aftermath; 9. From the Bulge to Victory in Europe; 10. The End of the War; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-305) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8487-1

OCLC:

785811723