The acclaimed oral history featuring the American veterans of World War II. From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are the stories that we can't afford not to hear, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today. Narrative oral history of World War II. Veterans oral histories complied from The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vols. 7-8.