The "Good War"

Summary: Studs Terkel "The Good War" is an oral history book on the events that took place in World War 2. Every story in this book is coming from Studs Terkel interview of a specific person who lived through the event their sharing. Studs Terkel's title of the book is a contradiction itself as the stories of the interviewed are mostly showing the horrors and negatives that happened during World War 2. Although "The Good War" is subtitled "An Oral History of World War 2" the interviews are mainly only shown from the point of view of America's involvement in the war. The people that were being interviewed by Studs Terkel consist of, young soldiers who just enrolled into the military or were just drafted into the war, African American Pilots, Attorney, Lawyers and even Women who had involvement the American soldiers fighting. The "Good War is split into 4 different smaller books or sub sections about World War 2.

Causation Of WW2: Germany went against the treaty of Versailles which was suppose to punish Germany after World War 1. With Hitler and the Nazi Party as the active leaders in Germany they lead and unprovoked invasion on Poland effectively starting World War 2.

The First Interview titled, "A Sunday Morning" was the point of view of the Pearl Harbor Attack from a 16 year old pipe fitter apprentice John Garcia. John wasn't there for the initial attack but when he arrived on site he was asked to contain active fires, "An officer came by and asked me to go into the Pennsylvania and try to get the fires out. A bomb had penetrated the marine deck, and that was three decks below. Under that was the magazines: ammunition, powder, shells." With his life in danger John didn't comply and got sent to Navy Court but his case got dropped as he wasn't enlisted in the Navy. Still on duty he helped retrieve bodies, some alive and most dead, out of the water. Eventually martial law took place in Hawaii and every citizen was forced to work everyday if not you were immediately arrested.