Available again - "The Hidden Places of World War II"

Chicago IL

17 February, 2021

2:59 PM

Description

After selling-out in the holiday season, award-winning Elmhurst author Jerome M. O'Connor's, THE HIDDEN PLACES OF WORLD WAR II is back on Amazon.  Written to observe the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in 2020, Chicagoan's will take special interest and pride in the war-winning accomplishments of at least 1,450 Chicago-area plants that converted almost overnight from making civilian goods to full war production.  Of special interest in today's pandemic and its vaccine manufacturing and distribution challenges, Chapter 23 of the 340-page hard-bound or Kindle book describes how three of the Chicago area pharmaceutical giants, G.D. Searle, Baxter and Abbott Laboratories, were given FTC anti-trust permission to mass produce penicillin.  Nineteen other pharmas were given similar anti-trust immunity through the vast powers of the War Production Board.  With a 96% highly positive approval on Amazon, expect to enter with the author and his never-seen photos into the war's unknown but essential places that escaped both war destruction and postwar knowledge by other historians. Jerome M. O'Connor, a U.S. Navy vet, Loyola University of Chicago graduate, was given the U.S. Naval Institute's principle award, "Author of the Year."  In 1979, in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, his four - page lead feature was to reveal the intact existence of Churchill's mythic war headquarters, mere walking minutes from number Ten Downing Street.   For a FREE preview of book parts go to the author's secure web site,    www.historyarticles.com