“Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.”

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An Army at Dawn

2003

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In the Company of Soldiers

2004

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The Day of Battle

2007

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Crusade

1994

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The Guns at Last Light

2013

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