Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.   Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II.
  The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female, those who fought in Europe and the Pacifi…