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Article: God, Country and Self-Interest: A Social History of the World War II Rank and File.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2005
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God, Country and Self-Interest: A Social History of the World War II Rank and File. By Toby Terrar (Silver Spring, Maryland: CWP, 2004. xxxvii plus 382 pp.).
Ed and Hazel Terrar live a few miles from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., which was dedicated on May 29, 2004. They did not attend the dedication. Despite both being veterans of World War II, they do not view it as "their" war. This is the substance of their just-published biography God, Country and Self-Interest: A Social History of the World War II Rank and File. (1) It studies the beliefs of those in the ranks by looking in depth at two who were there.
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