Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War (Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

by David S . Heidler (Editor), JeanneT.Heidler (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $89.77

  Offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary people struggling with the privations, shortages, and anxieties brought on by US entry into the Civil war. This book also shows how they strove to turn changing times to their advantage, traders profited from government contracts, and women took on well-paying skilled jobs in large numbers.