ISBN:
0195049055
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0195096495
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9780195096491
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 365 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Daddy's Gone to War : The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children
DDC:
305.23/0973
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Children
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Children and war
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Children History 20th century
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Children ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Children and war ; United States
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United States ; Social conditions ; 1933-1945
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World War, 1939-1945 ; Children ; United States
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Electronic books
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United States Social conditions 1933-1945
Abstract:
Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--with its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 hom
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; 1. Pearl Harbor: Fears and Nightmares; 2. Depression Children and War Babies; 3. "Daddy's Gone to War"; 4. Homefront Families on the Move; 5. Working Mothers and Latchkey Children; 6. Rearing Preschool Children; 7. School-age Children Fight the War; 8. Children Play War Games; 9. Children's Entertainment: Radio, Movies, Comics; 10. The Fractured Homefront: Racial and Cultural Hostility; 11. Children's Health and Welfare; 12. "Daddy's Coming Home!"; 13. Confronting War's Enormity, Praising Its Glory; 14. Age, Culture, and History; 15. The Homefront Children at Middle Age.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=679591
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