April 7, 2000

How World War II Shaped the 'Silent Generation'

By GAINES POST JR.

I have been fighting the Second World War all my life. That is not what I expected to discover when I began this book. As a professional historian, I had thought that I would compose a general account of the Cold War in the 1950's, spiced with occasional anecdotes to illustrate how memory affects my reading of history. But something happened as I began to write during a sabbatical leave in Paris, 1995-1996. Memory became more important to me than history, and this

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