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Alistair Cooke's American journey : life on the home front in the Second World War
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Alistair Cooke's American journey : life on the home front in the Second World War

Author: Alistair Cooke
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Shortly before his death in 2004, Alistair Cooke's personal secretary discovered in his New York study what Cooke had long believed was a lost manuscript: an entirely unpublished and extraordinary account of his travels through America during the Second World War"--Book Jacket.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.
Alistair Cooke's American journey.
London : Allen Lane, 2006
(OCoLC)607732363
Named Person: Alistair Cooke
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alistair Cooke
ISBN: 0713998792 9780713998795
OCLC Number: 68700189
Notes: Includes index.
Map on endpapers.
Description: xix, 327 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, port. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction to a war --
A passport to the people --
Through the Appalachians to the pioneers --
Deep down South --
The Gulf Coast --
The Southwest --
Westward the course of empire --
The Pacific Northwest --
The Great Plains --
From wheat to steel --
The rise and fall of New England --
Epilogue: four months in 1945 --
Envoi.
Other Titles: American journey : life on the home front in the Second World War
Responsibility: with a foreword by Harold Evans.

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Intertwined with the author's reflections on changing landscapes and cityscapes, this travelogue investigates at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of  Read more...

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