The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater
Book Details
Author(s)Matthew Rozell
ISBN / ASINB012HVH56G
ISBN-13978B012HVH564
Sales Rank59,405
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
‘I hope you’ll never have to tell a story like this, when you get to be 87.
I hope you’ll never have to do it.’
Marine veteran of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, to his teenage interviewer
At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Seventy years later, a high school history teacher and his students track down over two dozen veterans residing around “Hometown, USA†who fought the war in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay. They rescue and resurrect firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed. Here are the stories that the magazine could not tell, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today.
-Featuring over a dozen custom maps/closeups by Susan Winchell-Sweeney and 35 photographs, including never-before published portraits. Extended notes. 271 pages.
Matthew Rozell's teaching career is now spanning four decades. He has been recognized as an Organization of American Historians History Teacher of the Year and as a recipient of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Founders' Medal for History Education. Rozell is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow, has had his lessons filmed for NBC Learn and the New York State United Teachers, and has even been selected as an ABC World News ‘Person of the Week’. He is also a recipient of several state and local awards for history education. He writes on the power of teaching and the importance of the study of history at his website, http://matthewrozell.com.
TO SEE BONUS CONTENT, AND MEET THE STORYTELLERS, VISIT the companion author website, http://matthewrozell.com.
I hope you’ll never have to do it.’
Marine veteran of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, to his teenage interviewer
At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Seventy years later, a high school history teacher and his students track down over two dozen veterans residing around “Hometown, USA†who fought the war in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay. They rescue and resurrect firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed. Here are the stories that the magazine could not tell, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today.
-Featuring over a dozen custom maps/closeups by Susan Winchell-Sweeney and 35 photographs, including never-before published portraits. Extended notes. 271 pages.
Matthew Rozell's teaching career is now spanning four decades. He has been recognized as an Organization of American Historians History Teacher of the Year and as a recipient of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Founders' Medal for History Education. Rozell is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow, has had his lessons filmed for NBC Learn and the New York State United Teachers, and has even been selected as an ABC World News ‘Person of the Week’. He is also a recipient of several state and local awards for history education. He writes on the power of teaching and the importance of the study of history at his website, http://matthewrozell.com.
TO SEE BONUS CONTENT, AND MEET THE STORYTELLERS, VISIT the companion author website, http://matthewrozell.com.
