When War Becomes Personal : Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq.
Title:
When War Becomes Personal : Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq.
Author:
Anderson, Donald.
ISBN:
9781587297052
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- War, Memory, Imagination: A Prologue -- Visions of War, Dreams of Peace -- A Civil War Memoir -- My Chickamauga -- My Father at War -- Hang the Enola Gay -- A Boy's Blitz -- Notes from Ban Me Thuot -- A Different Species of Time -- Voices -- A Boatman's Story -- Shadow Soldier -- Wandering Souls -- Quarry -- Things to Pack When You're Bound for Baghdad -- Canon Fodder: An Epilogue -- Contributors.
Abstract:
Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. Alvord White Clements-himself a veteran of the Second World War-introduces his grandfather Isaac N. Clements's Civil War memoir; the novelist Paul West writes of his father, a British veteran of World War I, as well as of his own boyhood recollections of the London Blitz. John Wolfe details the life-changing and life-threatening injuries he sustained in Vietnam and the hallucinations he experienced afterward. Second Gulf War veteran Jason Armagost traces his journey to Iraq through the history of literature and the books he brought with him to the war zone.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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