9780060081973-006008197X-Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

ISBN-13: 9780060081973
ISBN-10: 006008197X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Bob Greene
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780060081973
ISBN-10: 006008197X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Bob Greene
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen (ISBN-13: 9780060081973 and ISBN-10: 006008197X), written by authors Bob Greene, was published by William Morrow Paperbacks in 2003. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Volunteer Work (Careers, State & Local, United States History, World War II, Military History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Volunteer Work books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.33.

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In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today—a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.

During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town, wanting to offer the servicemen warmth and support, transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen.

Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen—staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers—was open from five a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only 12,000 people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended.

In this poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history, based on interviews with North Platte residents and the soldiers who once passed through, Bob Greene tells a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.

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