In a video interview with LookTV, Matthew Rozell describes his new book in preparation for his upcoming lecture at the Hyde Museum, Sunday, November 15, 2015.
At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled Glens Falls and surrounding communities for a series of articles portraying them as “Hometown, USA”, the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Decades later, history teacher Matthew Rozell and his students tracked downed over thirty survivors who fought the war in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay. In the his new book, The Things Our Fathers Saw, first-person accounts of combat, brotherhood, captivity and redemption are presented for the first time. Mr. Rozell will discuss his book and the aftermath of the war that left no American community unscathed- the stories that the magazine could not tell, from the perspective of a vanishing generation speaking to America today.
Book signing will follow the lecture.
LINK TO EVENT: http://www.hydecollection.org/events_and_programs/Coming_Home_Reflections_on_the_70th_Anniversary_of_the_End_of_WWII_545.htm
http://www.looktvonline.com/matt-rozell-the-things-our-fathers-saw/
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