02573nam 2200577Ia 450 991045611290332120200520144314.01-58729-304-8(CKB)111056486862684(EBL)837057(OCoLC)50175127(SSID)ssj0000201034(PQKBManifestationID)11196319(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201034(PQKBWorkID)10231967(PQKB)10599204(MiAaPQ)EBC837057(MdBmJHUP)muse18361(Au-PeEL)EBL837057(CaPaEBR)ebr10354635(EXLCZ)9911105648686268419991105d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMemoirs of a Cold War son[electronic resource] /Gaines Post, Jr.; foreword by Albert E. StoneIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20001 online resource (249 p.)Singular lives : the Iowa series in North American biographyDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-701-8 Foreword albert e. stone; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Rue St-Julien-le-Pauvre; Chapter 2 Americans Abroad; Chapter 3 The Home Front; Chapter 4 From Cornell to Fort Sill; Chapter 5 Honest Johns and Germans; Chapter 6 Maneuvers; Chapter 7 War over Berlin?; EpilogueIn 1951 Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled, introspective teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his professorial father and older brother; his mother, who suffered from extreme depression, had been absent from the family for some time. Ten years later, now less gangly but no less introspective, he was finishing a two-year stint in the army in West Germany and heading toward Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, having narrowly escaped combat in the Berlin crisis of 1961. His quietly intense coming-of-age story is both self-revealing and reflective of an entire generation of young menSingular lives.Cold WarUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1989EuropePolitics and government1945-Electronic books.Cold War.973.92973.92092Post Gaines1937-986309MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456112903321Memoirs of a Cold War son2254246UNINA