From Library Journal In his introduction, Gerald Astor (The Mighty Eight, Right To Fight) states: "I hope to present a sense of what the American fighting man experienced in terms of what he thought, felt, saw, heard and tried to do." He succeeds admirably, creating the finest one-volume oral history available of the American soldier in World War II. Beginning with Pearl Harbor and proceeding chronologically to the dropping of the atomic bomb, this book describes army, navy, and marine corps actions through the eyes of the participants. The entries are well chosen, and Astor has arranged them in a fast-paced, smoothly flowing narrative. In his conclusion, he considers the war philosophically. Especially interesting is his tweaking of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation; comparing generations and their wars, he says, is not valid. Ambrose remains the master oral historian of the European Theater, but Astor has written the first oral history to include all of the services and theaters of the war. Highly recommended. -Richard S. Nowicki, Emerson Vocational H.S., Buffalo, NY