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… by Nicholson Baker. Simon & Schuster, March 2008. $30 Compared to the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq, World War … heroes of the Greatest Generation were not the Allied soldiers who fought the war, but the pacifists who tried to … case of the US, the development of the atom bomb, but Baker points out that neither leader did much to prevent the …
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