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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Greene, Bob
by Greene, Bob | HC | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0060081961
- Book Title
- Once Upon a Town : the Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 7.1 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, United States / 19th Century, Railroads / History, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Military
- Item Weight
- 12.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060081961
ISBN-13
9780060081966
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2246373
Product Key Features
Book Title
Once Upon a Town : the Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, United States / 19th Century, Railroads / History, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Military
Genre
Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Item Length
7.1 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-728283
Reviews
Greene reflects on his travels in the region, chronicling its citizens using the intimate style of his syndicated column., This pleasantly modest and meaningful account of life on the homefront deserves the widest audience., A lively, affectionate look at small town America .this.meaningful account of life on the homefront deserves the widest audience.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.53/78282
Synopsis
In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and syndicated columnist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today -- a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons. North Platte, Nebraska, is as isolated as a small town can be, a solitary outpost in the vast midwestern plains, hours from the state's urban centers of Omaha and Lincoln. But from Christmas Day 1941 to the end of World War II, a miracle happened there. During the war, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte on troop trains, en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town, wanting to offer the servicemen warmth and support, transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen -- a place where soldiers could enjoy coffee, music, home-cooked food, magazines, and convivial, friendly conversation during a stopover that lasted only a few minutes. It was a haven for a never-ending stream of weary, homesick military personnel that provided them with the encouragement they needed to help them through the difficult times ahead. Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen -- staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers -- was open from 5 A.M. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only twelve thousand people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended. In this poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history, based on interviews with North Platte residents and the GIs who once passed through, Bob Greene unearths and reveals a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.
LC Classification Number
D769.85.N2N248 2002
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