Good War, The

Terkel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Good War (1984) is an oral history of World War II that presents reminiscences of people, both famous and relatively unknown, who experienced it overseas and at home. Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times (1977) was the first of Terkel’s autobiographies; the…

…history, managed to compile in The Good War (1984) a comparable panorama of its participants, including those on the home front. Perhaps the leading exponent of military history as the social history of war is John Keegan, whose work ranges from the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 to the wars…