Book
The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
- Published
- 1998
- Genre
- History
- Publisher
- Random House
- Pages
- 464
- Words
- 102199
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32987.The_Greatest_Generation?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_25
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 8.6
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780739403921
- ISBN-10
- 0739403923
Tags
Biographies/Autobiographies-Biographies/Autobiographies (All)History-American/U.S. HistoryNonfictionUnited States of AmericaWWII