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Montgomery in the Good War

Montgomery in the Good War

Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

by Wesley Phillips Newton

Foreword by Allen Cronenberg

352 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.90 in, 32 illustrations

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9780817356323
Published: April 2010

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Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.

Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II.

The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female, those who fought in Europe and the Pacific and those who stayed on the home front. Newton follows Montgomerians chronologically through the war from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima as they experience patriotism, draft and enlistment, rationing, scarcity drives, and the deaths of loved ones. His use of small vignettes based on personal recollections adds drama and poignancy to the story.

Montgomery in the Good War is an important reminder that wars are waged at home as well as abroad and that their impact reverberates well beyond those who fight on the front lines. Those who came of age during the war will recognize themselves in this moving volume. It will also be enlightening to those who have lived in times of relative peace.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Allen Cronenberg

1. The City at the Start of the War

2. The Advent of Pearl Harbor

3. The Creation of Citizen Armed Forces

4. Montgomerians Head Overseas

5. The Emergence of the Home Front

6. The Black Community in Montgomery and Abroad

7. Life and Death at Home

8. OVERLORD and Aftermath

9. From the Bulge to Victory in Europe

10. The End of the War

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Wesley Phillips Newton (1925-2012) was Professor Emeritus of History at Auburn University and coeditor, with Robert R. Rea, of Wings of Gold: An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II.

Allen Cronenberg is former Director of the Center for Arts and Humanities at Auburn University and author of Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II.

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