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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen Analog audio cassette - 2002

by Bob Greene; Read by Fritz Weaver


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During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska on troop trains, en route to Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen -- a place where soldiers could enjoy coffee, music, home-cooked food, magazines, and friendly conversation during a stopover that lasted only a few minutes. It provided homesick military personnel with the encouragement they needed to help them through the difficult times ahead. Every day of the war, the Canteen -- staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers from the community of twelve thousand -- was open from 5 a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. By war's end they provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food to more than six million GIs.

Based on interviews with North Platte residents and the GIs who once passed through, Bob Greene unearths and reveals a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.

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  • Title Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
  • Author Bob Greene; Read by Fritz Weaver
  • Binding Analog Audio Cassette
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Volumes 4
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperAudio, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002
  • Abridged Yes
  • ISBN 9780060097394 / 0060097396
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.08 x 4.5 x 1.23 in (17.98 x 11.43 x 3.12 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.537
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ONCE UPON A TOWN: THE MIRACLE OF THE NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN (Audio Cassette)

ONCE UPON A TOWN: THE MIRACLE OF THE NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN (Audio Cassette)

by Greene, Bob

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New York: Harper Audio, 2002. As New still in the shrinkwrap. Four cassette tapes housed in the publishers cardstock box. Total time: approx 6 hours. Based on interviews with North Platte residents and the GIs who once passed through, Bob Greene unearths and reveals a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.
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€4.24 shipping to USA