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“A great All-American story. . . . Saylor conjures up the World War II years in truly inspired fashion. A wonderful book.”  Douglas Brinkley, author of Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944 World War II was the defining event for a generation of Americans. Remembering the Good War tells the... Read More about Remembering the Good War: Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Scores of WWII POWs offer lessons of wartime as they remember the terror and hardship of their days in captivity.... Read More about Long Hard Road: American POWs During World War II

The 1970s were more than big hair, mirror balls, and leisure suits. These were the years that bridged the chasm between the anti-establishment tumult of the 1960s and the morning-in-America conservatism of the 1980s. In Minnesota, this evolution unfolded in ways that defied expectations. No longer w... Read More about Minnesota in the 70s

Between 1941 and 1945 more than 110,000 American marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors were taken prisoner by German, Italian, and Japanese forces. Most who fought overseas during World War II weren’t prepared for capture, or for the life-altering experiences of incarceration, torture, and camarade... Read More about Long Hard Road: American POWs Durring World War II

World War II was the defining event for a generation of Americans. Remembering the Good War tells the stories of over one hundred Minnesotans--ordinary people who rose to duty at an extraordinary moment in our past. Here soldiers and sailors, housewives and farmers, "Rosies" and "Joes" tell what it ... Read More about Remembering the Good War: Minnesota's Greatest Generation