James H Madison

Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys

An American Woman in World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

Madison, this book is an exceptional window into a past that is all too quickly fading from memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221070
• ISBN-10: 0253221072
• Artikelnr.: 25682987

Autorenporträt

James H. Madison is Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America and other books. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Preface
Chronology of Elizabeth Richardson's Life
1. Growing Up, Leaving Home, and Preparing for War
2. The Yanks in England
3. V-1 Rockets, the Kansas City, and the 82nd Airborne
4. War Comes Closer
5. Into the English Provinces
6. From the Gray Midlands to Sunny Cornwall
7. Across the Channel and into France
8. V-E Day and V-E Blues
9. One Plane Crash
10. The Long Memory
Appendix: Wartime Writing
Notes
Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index