Stacy’s Reviews > The Good War: An Oral History of World War II > Status Update

Radiation sickness amongst pacific veterans and the US government denying help. Not a good chapter in our nations history. Why is it so hard to do the right thing?

The last section about people who worked in the Manhattan project is very good; interestingly most felt that dropping the bomb was necessary but that is should not have been dropped on a city. Not a perspective you hear and I am glad to have read their perspective.

Having read one person’s account of Babi Yar is worth the whole book. It is a shame we only have time in life for mostly a survey if history - what happened, when, and where. The personal stories “make history come alive”, yes, but more importantly give a wider lens through which see the humanity of other people, and to live life in peace with them.