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	Booknotes
		GROOM: World War I was fought all over the world but primarily it was fought on the Western Front which ran from the French border with Switzerland all the way 480 miles north to Ypres in the North Sea.
		GROOM: Well, I think you can only assess that by saying if the British, and there were French involved as well at Ypres, but not to the extent that the British were.
		GROOM: Hitler was actually a Bavarian but he joined the army and was by all accounts a fairly good soldier.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1691 (6828 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: 1942
		Winston Groom's 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls gives a fascinating account of a nation turning from naïveté and isolationism to a deep commitment to defeating foreign tyranny.
		Groom follows the first year of the war, from the initial attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, through the losses of Wake Island, the Philippines and Corregidor, to the critical turning points of Midway and Guadalcanal.
		Groom achieves this effect both through his attention to action and his ability to present the story of the war on very personal levels.
	www.bookpage.com /0505bp/nonfiction/1942.html (347 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Literary Perspective -- September 20, 1999
		WINSTON GROOM: Well, certainly there are problems there-- there are problems in urban areas as well, of course-- but it seems to me that...
		WINSTON GROOM: Well, I think I would not like to hear much more about abortion because the President of the United States cannot do a thing about it.
		WINSTON GROOM: Well, I don't know that there's a special role for the artist in this, I mean, other than being an ordinary good citizen and a voter.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec99/authors_9-20.html (2377 words)

	Alabama Booksmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winston was recently at the store signing copies of his latest work, A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918, a history of one of the most infamous and treacherous battles of WWI.
		Groom describes how the quaint medieval Belgian town of Flanders -- following the dreams and schemes of the stubborn "butchers and blunderers" who commanded from afar -- became the most dreaded place on earth, a "gigantic corpse factory" where hundreds of thousands of men died for gains that were measured in yards.
		Groom's story comes alive with the heart-wrenching journal entries of the men who fought on the grisly front lines, and is illustrated with breathtakingphotographs published here for the first time.
	www.alabamabooksmith.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=localauthors&page=49901 (1096 words)

	'Gump' author brings WWII to life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winston Groom, perfect storyteller and careful historian (who many will recall as the author of "Forrest Gump"), details this period in a totally memorable way that brings to life a decisive year from our national past.
		Groom has an eye for the anecdote that not only brings a story to our attention but astoundingly so.
		Groom explains how those who would surrender would be considered criminals and traitors to the homeland had they been Japanese.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/books/050501/book1.shtml (566 words)

	History News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winston Groom is known best as the author who wrote the novel upon which the movie Forrest Gump was based.
		Groom once again tells the familiar story of the Japanese seizure of Singapore, and the subsequent campaign to take the Philippines from the heroic Filipino and American defenders who held out first on the Bataan Peninsula and then on Corregidor.
		Groom’s discussion of Pearl Harbor could have benefited from a bit more of Gordon Prange, whose volumes At Dawn We Slept, and Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History, together with Barbara Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision are still the best works we have on the subject.
	hnn.us /roundup/entries/12087.html (1120 words)

	Southern Author Winston Groom profiled in Southern Literary Review
		Winston Groom is the author of ten books, including the bestselling Forrest Gump, GUMP and CO., and Gumpisms : The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump.
		Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Groom was expected to become a lawyer like his father, but after editing a literary magazine while attending the University of Alabama, he rejected his family’s expectations and pursued a career as a writer.
		Groom now lives in Point Clear, on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, where he and his wife Anne Clinton have built a house.
	www.southernlitreview.com /authors/winston_groom.htm (332 words)

	A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914--1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
		But as Groom puts it, "some genius" pointed out that there were 25 million hogs in Germany and they ate more potatoes and grain than the entire human population.
		Groom is as much a military writer as he is anything.
		Groom has read a hundred books about Flanders, digested them, processed them through his own consciousness, and in his own sometimes ironic, even sarcastic, voice has now given us a narrative summary, a synthesis of what he believes happened there, and this man can tell a story.
	www.wual.ua.edu /bookreviews/groom.html (1053 words)

	University of Alabama News
		Groom, a 1965 graduate of UA, told the audience of a trip back to campus some 10 years ago.
		Groom is currently working on "The Crimson Tide: An Illustrated History of Football at The University of Alabama," due out this fall by The University of Alabama Press.
		Groom received his undergraduate degree in English from UA's College of Arts and Sciences in 1965 and now serves on the Board of Visitors for UA's College of Communication and Information Sciences.
	www.ua.edu /advancement/ur/releases/may00/postgrad051300.htm (753 words)

	Winston Groom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Winston Groom (born 1944) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump which was adapted into a film in 1994.
		Though born in Washington, DC, Winston Groom grew up in Mobile, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and graduated in 1965.
		He served in the US Army 1965-69 including tour in Vietnam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winston_Groom (201 words)

	'Gump' opens door to history \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		ATLANTA — Winston Groom has written a dozen books, including his critically acclaimed 1978 debut novel, "Better Times Than These," but he's resigned to the fact that he will forever be known as the author of "Forrest Gump."
		Groom's novel about an idiot savant sold nearly 2 million copies in the wake of the Tom Hanks film and spawned a sequel, "Gump & Co.," that also was a best seller.
		Groom began writing "1942" in the months following 9/11 when the country was united.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/shared/entertainment/stories/0729_COXBOOK_BUZZ.html (768 words)

	The Anniston Star - Winston Groom: The writer who gave us ‘Gumpisms’ and so much more deserves UA honor
		In his nonfiction writing career, Groom followed “Conversations with the Enemy” with “Shrouds of Glory” (1995), his narrative of the last great campaigns of the Civil War in the West, that is to say, the territory from Tuscaloosa to Nashville.
		Groom’s most recent, “1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls” (2005), is the story of the rise up from the horrors of Pearl Harbor and the fall of France to the Battle of Midway and the North African invasion, events which reversed the course of World War II and showed the way to victory.
		Groom has written at least twice about his alma mater, once through the eyes of engineering student and football player Forrest Gump and again in his history of football at Alabama, “The Crimson Tide” (2000).
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2006/as-insight-0312-0-6c10r3651.htm (718 words)

	Book Review: 1942
		Assessing the situation, Groom concludes that "a year that began in shock and anxiety for the Allies had ended on a note of high confidence...
		Groom is an excellent writer and brings a novelist's skill to his non-fiction endeavors.
		Winston Groom is best known for his novel Forrest Gump, which was made into a hugely popular movie.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,061605_Mens_Souls,00.html (824 words)

	University of Alabama News
		– Winston Groom, renowned author of “Forrest Gump,” will receive the 2006 Clarence Cason Writing Award from the journalism department at The University of Alabama Thursday, March 16 at a banquet in his honor at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel.
		He graduated from UA in 1965, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army, and served in Vietnam.
		Groom has written for numerous magazines, including Vanity Fair, Southern Living, Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine and contributed editorial articles to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
	uanews.ua.edu /anews2006/mar06/groom030106.htm (366 words)

	Amazon.com: A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front: Books: Winston ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Groom does not pull his punches and does his best to give the reader, sitting in a comfortable armchair, some sense of just how horrible the Great War was.
		In a passage that I found especially memorable, Groom quotes Lieutenant Alfred J. Angel of the Royal Fusiliers during Third Ypres: "The stench was horrible, for the bodies were not corpses in the normal sense.
		Winston Groom's latest historical work 'A Storm in Flanders', offers the reader an interesting and satisfying overview of the fighting around the Ypres Salient between 1914 and 1918.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000C20PBK?v=glance (2085 words)

	RITRO.com - Formerly Writing Tips & Advice - Story - When to Break the Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winston Groom broke nearly every rule in the book when he wrote “Forrest Gump”, yet not only was the novel a success it was also made into a hugely successful movie starring Tom Hanks.
		Winston Groom knows how to spell; he knows all of his punctuation rules and is probably a grammar wiz.
		By misspelling and making punctuation and grammar errors in his novel, Winston Groom has given his character Forrest a stronger and more realistic voice.
	www.ritro.com /printable.bv?contentid=2828 (595 words)

	HANS\|Online - Book Report: "Forrest Gump", Winston Groom
		Winston Groom was born in 1943 the son of a successful lawyer and spent his childhood and youth in Mobile, Alabama.
		He attended the University of Alabama and served from 1965 to '67 as an officer in Vietnam.
		After his service in Vietnam Winston Groom became a journalist.
	www.geocities.com /breport2002 (170 words)

	Forrest Gump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Forrest Gump is a 1985 novel by Winston Groom, a 1994 film adaptation, and the name of the titular character of both.
		As such, Groom has refused to allow the novel's sequel, Gump and Co., to be filmed, stating that he could not in good conscience sell the rights to film the sequel to a failure.
		While Forrest's father is described as "going on vacation" in the movie, it is revealed near the beginning of the book that his father (a stevedore) was actually killed by a falling crate of bananas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forrest_Gump (3253 words)

	A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front - Celebrity Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The stuff of Groom's story will be familiar to readers of Liddell Hart, Keegan, and other scholars, and readers new to the history of the Great War will find it a memorable introduction.
		A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom’s gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought—and thought about—war.
		Drawing on the journals of the men and women who were there, Winston Groom has penned a breathtaking drama of politics, strategy, and human heart.
	www.celebrity-ltd.com /ItemId/0802139981 (1100 words)

	Southern Scribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		And when Groom pulls it off, building the drama through a multitude of facts, which he lays out in orderly fashion, building from a sturdy foundation, the results are disturbing and powerful.
		Grooms provides apt descriptions of the horror, calling it a “death dance” around the tools of destruction in this first great 20th Century war.
		Winston Groom has written a well-researched, chilling, earth-shattering saga of neurotic nations embroiled in a chaotic, torturous time of turmoil.
	www.southernscribe.com /reviews/history/flanders.htm (578 words)

	Amazon.com: Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl : A Novel: Books: Winston Groom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Groom (Forrest Gump) seems to have followed his best-known creation to Hollywood: if for Forrest "life is like a box of chocolates," for the protagonists here, life is like an old-fashioned detective thriller, replete with stock characters, stagey settings and convenient plot twists.
		Groom winds up with a goofily violent climax, but this final action is hardly worth the price Johnny, and readers, have paid to get there.
		And if Groom wants to name drop wine in the future...I'll be glad to be his wine consultant...I've been writing a syndicated wine column for 32 years.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375501614?v=glance (1356 words)

	Past Participants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winston Groom was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Mobile, Alabama.
		In 1984, Groom and Duncan Spencer co-authored Conversations with the Enemy, a nonfiction work that garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
		Winston Groom resides in Point Clear, Alabama with his wife and his dog, Forrest.
	www.hoover.lib.al.us /adult/sv/recip.htm (778 words)

	Booknotes
		Groom describes how the quaint medieval Belgian town of Flanders following the dreams and schemes of the stubborn"butchers and blunderers" who commanded from afar became the most dreaded place on earth, a"gigantic corpse factory" where hundreds of thousands of men died for gains that were measured in yards.
		The battle's unprecedented horrors inspired some of the most compelling and enduring artistry of the war: from Remarque's classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front to the haunting poem that came to symbolize war,"In Flanders Fields," composed in the heat of battle by John McCrae, a grieving Canadian surgeon.
		Groom's story comes alive with the heart-wrenching journal entries of the men who fought on the grisly front lines, and is illustrated with breathtaking photographs published here for the first time.
	www.booknotes.org /Program?ProgramID=1691 (428 words)

	GUMP SEQUEL IS SWEEPING BUT FALLS FLAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		WINSTON GROOM'S ``Gump & Co.'' (Pocket Books, 242 pp., $22) is like a box of chocolates without the inside-cover map, with some parts nutty, some sweet and some just plain mysterious.
		In his sequel to ``Forrest Gump,'' Groom has written a sweeping yarn in which his hero meets Jim and Tammy Bakker, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Saddam Hussein and (of course) that ``pretty good'' actor, Tom Hanks.
		Groom's tale is a romp through the excesses and eccentricities of the 1980s, from the PTL Club to New Coke.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp951004/10040039.htm (631 words)

	WHERE GLORY MEETS TERROR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the best approaches is through the flesh-and-blood images used in a new book by Winston Groom, so widely acclaimed just now amid the immense success of the film made from his 1986 novel, Forrest Gump.
		In Shrouds of Glory, Groom, a Vietnam War veteran whose great-grandfather fought for the Confederate Army, is on another track entirely from that tale of good-heartedness in a man-child.
		Although the Atlanta-to-Nashville segment of the war gets Groom's chief attention, he finds avenues to bring in the entire careers of most of the participants he writes about.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950507/05050501.htm (566 words)

	Alibris: Winston
		Arguably the most eloquent statesman of his time, Sir Winston Churchill delivered speeches that have inspired generation after generation.
		In this definitive collection, his grandson Winston S. Churchill pulls together all of his well-known speeches, as well as some lesser appreciated ones, ensuring that his eloquence will be shared with future...
		"Shrouds of Glory" is Groom's riveting account of General John Bell Hood's decisive actions in the western theater of operations during the final moments of the Civil War.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Winston (997 words)

	1942: Its Lesson for Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Groom is a masterful storyteller and best known perhaps for his fictional work "Forrest Gump" - a story that later became a movie classic.
		Groom's account of what happened to Doolittle and his crew after they bailed out makes for fascinating reading.
		One anecdote in Groom's book shows how set in its ways the U.S. was during the early stages of the war: For the first two years, American torpedoes almost never worked.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1406021/posts (2688 words)

	eBay - Book: Gump Co. (ISBN: 067153680X) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Forrest Gump is back, along with Ollie North, New Coke, and the outrageous Eighties in Winston Groom's sequel to Forrest Gump.
		Winston Groom GUMP and CO audio book ~sequel to Forrest G
		Gump & Co. Novel Groom Forrest Gump Audiobook
	product.ebay.com /Gump-Co_ISBN_067153680X_W0QQfvcsZ1390QQsoprZ521183 (429 words)

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