War Years: A Chronicle of Washington State in World War II

by James R. Warren

Book Overview

If any one state truly served as the ?arsenal of freedom? during World War II it was Washington. Although its population numbered barely 1.7 million at the war's outset, Washington supplied crucial resources for the Allies? ultimate victory'millions of tons of food and raw materials, thousands of B-17 and B-29 bombers, hundreds of ships, and, finally, the few pounds of plutonium that ended the greatest war in history and ushered in the nuclear age...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295980761
• ISBN13: 9780295980768
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 10.5"