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Autore |
McWilliams Tennant S. <1943-> |
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Titolo |
The chaplain's conflict [[electronic resource] ] : good and evil in a war hospital, 1943-1945 / / Tennant McWilliams |
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College Station, Tex., : Texas A&M University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-77239-5 |
9786613683168 |
1-60344-689-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (152 p.) |
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Collana |
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Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Chaplains - United States |
Military chaplains - United States |
Military chaplains - Presbyterian Church |
World War, 1939-1945 |
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front |
World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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The author based the book on Rev. Kennedy's letters, war diaries, and post-war magazine articles, as well as a personal yearlong trip retracing Kennedy's war locales, including conducting interviews with local citizens about their war remembrances. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Finding the war -- pt. 2. France -- pt. 3. Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--""Ren"" to those who knew him--witnessed great courage, extreme talent, and many lives snatched from the precipice of death, all under the most trying conditions. He also observed drug and alcohol abuse, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and chronic depression. What he saw, he chronicled in his journal, and what he wrote, he processed with an intellectual and ethical rigor born of his remarkably sophisticated worldview and his deeply held Christian faith. With Kennedy's war diaries an |
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