David Nasaw

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From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans’—and nation’s—unhealed traumas.   Chapter 1. The Return of the Wounded During the first two years of the war, close to one million American service members were returned to civilian life,