A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation

作者 Randy Roberts著
出版社 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
出版时间 2011年11月第1版
ISBN 9780547511061
定价 222.00

内容简介

EachyeartheArmyandNavyfootballteamsmeetforoneepicgame.Acrossthenation,fanstuneintoseewhowillemergevictorious.ButnogamewillevermatchtheonethatwasplayedonDecember2,1944.AmericawasinthemidstofWorldWarII:soldiersandsailorsweredyinginaroundtheglobe,andthehomefrontsufferedthroughshortages.Butforoneday,allthatwasforgotten.Navy’steamwasrankednumber2,Army,number1andonthevergeofbecomingnationalchampions.Everywhere,thewarstoppedassoldierslistenedtothebroadcast.RandyRobertshasinterviewedthesurvivingplayersandcoaches,bringingtheirstoriestolife.Forthreeyears,militaryupperclassmengraduatedandjoinedthefight.Forthreehours,theiralmamatergavethembackoneunforgettableperformance.

作者简介

RANDYROBERTSisaDistinguishedProfessorofHistoryatPurdueUniversity.?HispreviousbooksincludeJohnWayne:?American(coauthoredwithJamesOlson),JoeLouis:?HardTimesMan,andPapaJack:?JackJohnsonandtheEraofWhiteHopesamongothers.?HeismarriedtoMarjieTraylorRobertsandfathertotwindaughters,AlisonandKelly.

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