Lisa November’s Reviews > The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II > Status Update

“The surviving veterans of World War II . . . deserve the praise bestowed on them. Still, we do them a disservice by reducing them to stick-figure avatars of progress, confining the effects of their war service to a character-building, maturing experience that prepared them for postwar roles as nation builders, and overlooking the difficulties they encountered on returning from war.”