1984 Paperback in excellent condition, 589 pages

Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the
reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called "the good
war" because, in the words of one soldier, "to see fascism defeated,
nothing better could have happened to a human being"). These
participants, men and women, famous and ordinary, tell stories that
add immeasurably to our understanding of that cataclysmic time. One
Soviet soldier recounts that, surrounded by the Germans, his comrades
tapped the powder from their last cartridges and inserted notes to
their families inside the casings; Russian children, he goes on,
still turn these up every now and again and deliver the notes to the
soldiers' families. Terkel touches on many themes along the way,
including institutionalized racism in the United States military, the
birth of the military-industrial complex, and the origins of the Cold
War.