"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) is an oral history of World War II compiled by Studs Terkel. The work received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. "The Good War" consists of a series of interviews with various men and women from across the globe who directly experienced the events leading up to, including, and following the Second World War. Chapters The book's chapters and subchapters, with the names and topics of the subjects involved, are as follows: Book One "Sunday Morning"—John Garcia, Ron Veenker, Dennis Keegan, Peter Ota, Mayor Tom Bradley, Yuriko Hohri, Frank Keegan "A Chance Encounter"—Robert Rasmus, Richard M. (Red) Prendergast "Tales of the Pacific" -- E. B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge, Maurice E. (Jack) Wilson, Robert Lekachman, Peter Bezich, Anton Bilek "The Good Reuben James"—Bill Bailey, David Milton "Rosie"—Peggy Terry, Pauline Kael, Sarah Killingsworth, Evelyn Fraser, Dellie Hahne, Betty Basye Hutchinson "Neighborhood Boys" -- Mike Royko, Mayor Tom Bradley, Paul Pisicano, Mickey Ruiz, Jack Short, Dempsey Travis, Don McFadden, Win Stracke, Johnny DeGrazio "Reflections on Machismo"—John H. Abbott, Roger Tuttrup, Ted Allenby Book Two "High Rank" -- Admiral Gene LaRocque, General William Buster "The Bombers and The Bombed" -- John Ciardi, Akira Miuri, John Kenneth Galbraith, Eddie Costello and Ursula Bender, Jean Wood "Growing Up: Here and There"—John Baker, Sheril Cunning, Yasuko Kurachi Dower, Galatea Berger, Werner Burkhardt, Jean Bartlett, Oleg Tsakumov, Marcel Ophuls "D-Day and All That"—Elliott Johnson, Joe Hanley, Charles A. Gates, Timuel Black, Rosemary Hanley, Dr. Alex Shulman, Frieda Wolf "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" -- Maxene Andrews Book Three "Sudden Money"—Ray Wax, George C. Page, Lee Oremont, A Quiet Little Boom Town "The Big Panjandrum"—Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran, James Rowe, Hamilton Fish, John Kenneth Galbraith, Virginia Durr, Joe Marcus, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., W. Averell Harriman, Earl B. Dickerson "Flying High" -- Lowell Steward "Up Front with Pen, Camera, and Mike" -- John Houseman, Herman Kogan, Henry Hatfield, Alfred Duckett, Milton Caniff, Garson Kanin, Bill Mauldin, Richard Leacock, Walter Rosenblum Book Four "Crime and Punishment"—Alvin (Tommy) Bridges, Joseph Small, Hans Gobler and James Sanders, Charlie Miller, Jacques Raboud, Walter and Olga Nowak, Erich Luth, Vitaly Korotich, Joseph Levine "A Turning Point"—Joseph Polowsky, Galina Alexeyeva, Mikhail Nikolaevich Alexeyev, Viktor Andreyevich Kondratenko, Grigori Baklanov "Chilly Winds" -- Telford Taylor, Eileen Barth, Arno Mayer, Anthony Scariano, Erhard Dabringhaus, Irving Goff, Milton Wolff, Hans Massaquoi "Is You Is or Is You