"Cooke's examination of the Special Services and PX System during World War II, a subject previously overlooked by scholars, shows that these goods and services kept the armedforces' spirits up under the alienating conditions of global war." Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century
As World War II dawned in Europe, General George C. Marshall, the new Army Chief of Staff, had to acknowledge that American society and the citizens who would soon become soldiers had drastically changed in the previous few decades. Almost every home had a...
"Cooke's examination of the Special Services and PX System during World War II, a subject previously overlooked by scholars, shows that these goods...