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Article: NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHORS SHARE WORLD WAR II STORIES AT UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ON NOV. 18
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 10, 2008
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The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release:
They landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. They were shot down over Holland, Germany, Italy and China. They survived more than three years as prisoners of the Japanese. They helped liberate the concentration camps. They lost friends and loved ones in the greatest cataclysm in world history.
Meg Heckman and Mike Pride interviewed 50 members of the World War II generation for a series in the Concord Monitor. Now they have collected the oral histories of veterans and civilians in their new book, "We Went to War."
Heckman and Pride will speak about the book and the war at UNH Nov. 18, 2008, at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, ...