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This edition does not include illustrations. World War II affected the lives of ordinary men and women more directly than any other conflict before or since. This is an unprecedented look at the lives of twenty-one young men who answered their country's call to arms and left their homes and loved ones to fight in often unfamiliar and far-reaching corners of the globe. Many never returned, and those who did found their homes and countries much changed by long years of war. Most discovered they had become different people: having seen death and destruction on a scale they had never imagined they would witness, the return to civilian life was often far from easy. Now, more than sixty years on, this remarkable generation is fading. Most are now over eighty and around the world more than two thousand veterans of the war are passing away every day. But in this new book by 'Sunday Times' bestselling author James Holland, he recounts the real-life stories of twenty-one young men from...Comments : This edition does not include illustrations. World War II affected the lives of ordinary men and women more directly than any other conflict before or since. This is an unprecedented look at the l
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- Author
- James Holland
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007438396
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, War & Espionage
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