Avail Yourself Home Front Baltimore: An Album Of Stories From World War II Put Together By Gilbert Sandler Provided As Softcover

interesting book about life in Baltimore during WW, In addition to the history and the personal memories of the people Sandler interviewed, he also keeps a timeline of what was happening on the fronts when the events in the book happen.


It's particularly interesting to go to some of the areas that were so vital during those years like the area around Martin State Airport and see the housing that was built during the war and the buildings that are now abandoned that were part of the war effort.
In July, American prisoners of war were performing Julius Caesar on a juryrigged stage in Burma at about the same time that Tommy Dorsey and his famous orchestra played the Hippodrome Theatre on Eutaw Street.
In June, more than,U, S. Marines died capturing the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean while fans back in Baltimore were cheering the International League Orioles in their successful bid for a championship.


These are just two of the startling juxtapositions that Gilbert Sandler writes about in his account of life on the home front in Baltimore during the Second World War.
While poring through the wartime archives of local newspapers, Sandler was struck by the contrast between what was happening over there, in the war, and over here, back home in Baltimore.
Some of these contrasts seem ironic some provide sobering perspective, Together they make up an album of vivid and engaging stories, many told by people who lived through them.


Home Front Baltimore struggles, along with the reader, to make sense of these two worlds, thousands of miles apart, and gives readers a deeper understanding of what the city was really like during the war.
Rarely seen photographs from the Baltimore Sun, the NewsAmerican, and the AfroAmerican bring to life the rich, personal anecdotes of wartime Baltimoreans and transport readers back to an indelible era of Baltimore history.
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