Geoffrey C. Ward wrote the script for the film series The War and
is the winner of five Emmys and two Writers Guild of America awards
for his work for public television. He is also a historian and
biographer and the author of fourteen books, including most
recently Unforgivable Blackness- The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989 and the
Francis Parkman Prize in 1990. He lives in New York City.
Ken Burns, producer and director of the film series The War,
founded his own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His
films include Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the
highest-rated series in the history of American public television.
His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody
Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New
Hampshire.
“Ken Burns has done it again. He has given us an intimate,
memorable, and provocative portrait of America in World War II—the
valor and victory, sacrifice and shame of ordinary Americans,
north, south, east, and west. This is a treasure.” —Tom Brokaw
“Heartrending...Unique not only among previous volumes that have
accompanied Burns’s documentaries but among just about any book on
World War II.... It should be read by everyone in the family, from
the high-schoolers to the Baby Boomers.” —Newark Star-Ledger
"Ken Burns has done it again. He has given us an intimate,
memorable, and provocative portrait of America in World War II-the
valor and victory, sacrifice and shame of ordinary Americans,
north, south, east, and west. This is a treasure." -Tom Brokaw
"Heartrending...Unique not only among previous volumes that have
accompanied Burns's documentaries but among just about any book on
World War II.... It should be read by everyone in the family, from
the high-schoolers to the Baby Boomers." -Newark
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