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Debutante, wife, mother, trailblazing freelance photographer: Patricia O'Meara Robbins was one of a kind, making her own way through the turbulent world of the mid-twentieth century from China through Pearl Harbor, Hollywood and post-war Europe. Beginning in 1933, at the age of 22, when she found herself in old imperial China, Pat Robbins blazed a trail for other female photographers who would follow her. She documented the pre-war Orient and ...

Focuses extensively on the citizens' experiences in the armed forces and at home in their support. "Continues offers detailed accountings of America's unique World War II boomtown's contribution to the war effort.

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The persona and character of the World War II Marine vividly comes alive in this book, which interprets and analyzes the Marines's personal and cultural history, the pleasant and unpleasant, serious and not so, the ordinary and exceptional. It is about men doing their duty and nothing else.

Giants in the Cornfield adds a fresh dimension to Civil War literature with this extensive social study of the young, uneducated farmers of the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The work focuses on the interactions of a single, homogeneous unit of common soldiers: neighbors and chums from the same county, village, and family, who endure three years of hardships to save the Union.