2020年8月29日 星期六

紐約時報每周書介"二戰專題":Books Update: The Good War


 The Good War 是1984年出版的一本二戰口述史的書名。

to have had a good warin British English

to have made the most of the opportunities presented to one during wartime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_War




Dear Reader,
This month is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, marked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then on Aug. 15, 1945, V-J Day. As is so often the case, publishers have released over the course of the last few months a number of books by historians and other writers re-examining the events of the period and their enduring legacy. In this special themed issue, we review the most noteworthy of those titles.
Several reviews stand out in particular. William Langewiesche, a writer at large for The Times Magazine, reviews the new book by Lesley M.M. Blume, “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World.” The book traces the story behind John Hersey’s enduring work of investigative narrative journalism “Hiroshima,” which Blume joins me on the podcast this week to discuss.
Timothy Snyder, the best-selling author of “On Tyranny,” among other books, reviews Roger Moorhouse’s “Poland 1939,” about the outbreak of the war; Jay Winik reviews Chris Wallace’s best seller, “Countdown 1945,” written with Mitch Weiss; and Scott Anderson, author of “Lawrence in Arabia,” among other books, reviews Jennet Conant’s “The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer.”
There’s so much more in this issue, each book covering a different angle of the war, that we worried about being able to fit it all in. We hope it will be enough to sate your own curiosity and reading needs on a subject that, should it not interest you already, hopefully will by the time you read through this issue.
Please stay in touch and let us know what you think — whether it’s about this newsletter, our reviews, our podcast, our literary calendar, our Instagram or what you’re reading. We read and ponder all of it. I even write back, albeit belatedly. You can email me at books@nytimes.com.
Pamela Paul
Editor of The New York Times Book Review
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