One of the few books I’ve read cover-to-cover in one sitting, “The Greatest Generation” is a true treasure from award-winning anchorman Tom Brokaw.
The book accompanies his NBC television special and features notes, poems and stories from the American men and women who were born in the 1920s, survived extreme circumstances during the Depression and a World War, and went on to become the parents of the “baby boomers.”
“The Greatest Generation” is a book that will renew your faith in people, culture and humanity, and remind you that beyond the brave faces and bullet wounds are human feelings that weathered a world far more severe than our current state of affairs, and still lived to tell about it.
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I thought that this was a very good book. Having parents, aunts and uncles and family friends who lived through and fought in WWII, it was like sitting and listening to these important people in my past. The sacrifice and task at hand was monumental. Such an interesting collection of stories.
I absolutely love this book. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it! Not only will it shed some light on the WWII generation, but it offers a glimpse of how their personalities, beliefs, morals and ambitions drove their kids (and their kids’ kids) to become the people they are today. It’s powerful story-telling.