| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society. By Michael D. Gambone. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x, 271 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-58544-455-3. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 1-58544-488-X.)

In the early pages of The Greatest Generation Comes Home, Michael D. Gambone stated that "comprehensive histories of the World War II veteran are rare" and that this topic "remains a fairly anemic historical field" (p. 12). Yet his footnotes and bibliographic essay suggest otherwise. From George K. Pratt's Soldier to Civilian: Problems of Readjustment (1944) to David R. B. Ross's Preparing for Ulysses: Politics and Veterans during World War II (1969) to Mark D. Van Ells's To Hear Only Thunder Again: America's World War II Veterans Come Home (2001), much has been written about both the challenges and opportunities encountered by World War II veterans. What distinguishes Gambone's study from many earlier works are his attempts to identify the "broad array of places where veterans touched America after World War II" and to integrate this information "into one complete story" (p. 13). In doing so, however, he was forced to rework themes that will be familiar to many historians of twentieth-century America.

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