Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front During World War II

by Dave Kenney

Book Overview

Brainerd, 1941: The first people began arriving at the depot at about eleven-thirty p.m. The mercury in the thermometer read twenty below zero, and it was still dropping. . . . A few minutes before midnight, the men the crowd had come to see marched into view--eighty-two of them, all dressed in khakis, responding on cue to barked commands. . . . The conductor called "all aboard." The band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The men fell in and marched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873515064
• ISBN13: 9780873515061
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"