The Greatest Generation

Description for THE GREATEST GENERATION by Tom Brokaw: "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the massive & daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's 3rd Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their 60s & 70s, & listened to their stories, I was deeply moved & profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the 50th anniversary of the invasion, & by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced." In this book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell thru the stories of individuals the story of a generation, citizen heroes who came of age during the Great Depression