Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

by Wesley Phillips Newton

Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II.
The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817356320
• ISBN13: 9780817356323
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Fire Ant Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"