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UNINA9910782560403321 |
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Titolo |
When war becomes personal [[electronic resource] ] : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq / / edited by Donald Anderson |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AndersonDonald <1946 July 9-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Soldiers - United States |
Soldiers' writings, American |
United States History, Military Anecdotes |
United States Armed Forces Biography Anecdotes |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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