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Theaters of War

America’s Perceptions of World War II

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  • © 2009

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  1. Vincent Casaregola
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Vincent Casaregola
    Pages 1-11

  3. A War Warning

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    Pages 13-25

  4. “Why We Fight”

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    Pages 27-53

  5. How We Fight: Campaigns of Sacrifice and Service

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    Pages 55-77

  6. “The Great Crusade”

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    Pages 79-106

  7. “Saddle Up! Let’s Get Back to the War.”

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    Pages 107-136

  8. Longest Days in the “Good War”

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    Pages 137-157

  9. Conscientious Objection

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    Pages 159-184

  10. Now It Can Be Told: Reopening Old Wounds

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    Pages 185-211

  11. The Once and Future War

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    Pages 213-238

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-281
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About this book

Historian Vincent Casaregola examines the portrayal of WWII in popular culture and how that protrayal has changed over time. By examining WWII films, literature, theatre and art from the Cold War era, the Vietnam War, the Reagan years, and present day, he seeks to understnad the part played by current politics, events and conflicts.

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"The study offers interesting perceptions of how attitudes toward the Cold War and the Vietnam War played through a lens of "the good war" . . . Casaregola's extensive filmography and list of broadcast sources of highly useful. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." - Choice

About the author

VINCENT CASAREGOLA is Professor of English and Director of the English Department Writing Program at Saint Louis University, USA.

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