, told with Winston Groom’s accomplished storyteller’s eye, allows us into the admirals’ strategy rooms, onto the battlefronts, and into the heart of a nation at war. “When not drawing in 5/5(7). · . The Year That Tried Men's Souls. By Winston Groom. Illustrated. pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $ IN Winston Groom's latest Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. was the worst year of WWII, as the US wasn't ready for a War, and had to play catch up regarding drafting men and making guns, special jeeps, trucks, clothing, and dealing with the Japanese in the far Pacific, with left over ammunition from WWI, that no longer worked, having to leave men on Bataan and Coregidor behind, as they had no way to rescue them, or to supply them, so had to surrender to the /5().
The Year That Tried Men's Souls - Kindle edition by Groom, Winston. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Year That Tried Men's Souls. Winston Groom is the author of fourteen books, including Forrest Gump, Better Times Than These, the prizewinning Shrouds of Glory, and Conversations with the Enemy, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He lives in Point Clear, Alabama, and Cashiers, North Carolina. The Year that Tried Men's Souls. To the generation of Americans who lived. Winston Groom talked about his book [ The Year That Tried Men's Souls], published by Atlantic Monthly Press. The book recounts the year following America's entry into World War II. The author.
Novelist and popular historian Winston Groom vividly re-creates the story of America's first year in World War II. To the generation of Americans who lived through it, the Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, and the defining events of that war were played out in the year was the worst year of WWII, as the US wasn't ready for a War, and had to play catch up regarding drafting men and making guns, special jeeps, trucks, clothing, and dealing with the Japanese in the far Pacific, with left over ammunition from WWI, that no longer worked, having to leave men on Bataan and Coregidor behind, as they had no way to rescue them, or to supply them, so had to surrender to the Japs, which turned into the Bataan "death march" where many died along the way to a. THE YEAR THAT TRIED MEN’S SOULS. by Winston Groom ‧RELEASE DATE: May 1, Novelist-historian Groom (A Storm in Flanders, ; etc.) turns his hand to WWII, with mixed results. The time was what namesake Winston Churchill called “the hinge of fate”: In the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing and the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, the Axis seemed in great danger of achieving global dominance.
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