Soldier From The War Returning

A revelatory social history examining the lives of American military veterans after their return home following World War II. “Thomas Childers’s heartbreaking book makes palpable the human cost of a conflict too often sanitized as ‘the good war.’” — Chicago Tribune One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and w