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4.0 out of 5 stars
NOSTALGIC REMINISCENCE, December 10, 1997
By A Customer
This review is from: V for Victory: America's Home Front During World War II (Paperback)
We are writing a journal of the "Old Days" for our children and grandchildren. We needed our memory refreshed on WWII rationing and other patriotic actions. Stan Cohen had compiled just what we needed. (Note: Amazing how "politically incorrect" we were in those days!!!)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The WWII U.S. Home Front is Brought to Life! A True Winner!, December 14, 2003
This review is from: V for Victory: America's Home Front During World War II (Paperback)
This is an absolutely great book! For those of us who had the incomparable experience of living in WWII wartime America, each page of this remarkable book will cause a jolt. It's all there...with no punches pulled. The Government propaganda machine cranked out media that was aimed at having us hate our Axis enemies. (The same Germany, Italy and Japan that are our friends today.) Yes, the great photos and text cover it all....air raid drills and shelters, Victory Gardens, rationing, civil defense, draft boards, relocation of Japanese, the war plants and manpower. It was a time that the equal opportunity movements for women, African-Americans and the handicapped started to gain steam. World War II brought us out of the Depression, and author Stan Cohen depicts how a sleeping America became an unmatched industrial machine because determination of its WWII work force. Nor does he neglect technologies that were developed in the home front. The computer, television and a multitude of other products were invented or advanced during this period. V for Victory has 408 pages. Each page is remarkable. I recommend this book highly. Martin Davis, Ph.D.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A complete visual record of Home Front USA, January 5, 2002
This review is from: V for Victory: America's Home Front During World War II (Paperback)
The major fault with this book is its complete lack of editorial judgement. With hundreds of photos and graphic material it should have been presented in a much more imaginative way to make the pages sparkle. The presentation is completely unprofessional which is annoying because with so much wonderful visual material this should have looked a wonderful book. However I did find it a fascinating visual record of the war years but exasperating at times because of the overwhelming repetition of photos. Do I really need to look at over fifty photos of scrap drives? I just wonder, looking through the pages, if they had any photos they didn't use. The text is basically captions and some longer essays and there really should have been an index, this is the sort of book readers dip into and refer back to. As well as the photos there is plenty of printed ephemera and these items intrigued me most. For example the chapter on Food for Victory has a seed packet, recipe books, posters, a cover to a home canning book, a lunch bag, a packet of waxed paper, the front of a newspaper produced by Kraft cheese, a Victory garden book. Seeing these printed items reminded me of Numark and Jacob's stunning America's Wartime Scrapbook - Pearl Harbour to V-J . A large format book with 1500 printed items arranged in themed spreads, all in color, too. Both books, visually, approach the war years in a different style. I love Numark and Jacob's scrapbook format and if only Cohen's book hadn't been so amateurish editorially it could well have become a standard photo book on the period. ***LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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