My Life In The Service – The World War II Diary Of George McGovern

Before he was a politician, Senator George McGovern served as a B-24 bomber pilot in World War II. Based in Italy, he flew thirty-five combat missions over Europe between 1944 and 1945. My Life in the Service features a facsimile of the diary George McGovern kept from his first days of basic training until the end of the war. Hastily jotted down in his exacting hand whenever he had the impulse to put his thoughts on paper, the pages convey the immediacy of McGovern’s wartime experiences. Each lined sheet is decorated with illustrations, alongside aphorisms on battle and democracy from some of history’s greatest minds. This document powerfully evokes an era, while it predicts the man George McGovern would become. (For ease of reading, a typed transcription of the diary is included.)

AUTHOR – George McGovern
PUBLISHER – Franklin Square Press
FORMAT -Hardback
PAGES – 157
PUBLISHED – 2016
ISBN – 978 1 879957 59 6