02735nam 2200565 a 450 991078256040332120230721003726.01-58729-705-1(CKB)1000000000575931(EBL)843194(OCoLC)294903782(SSID)ssj0000271119(PQKBManifestationID)11209956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271119(PQKBWorkID)10294688(PQKB)11550366(MiAaPQ)EBC843194(MdBmJHUP)muse2989(Au-PeEL)EBL843194(CaPaEBR)ebr10354557(EXLCZ)99100000000057593120080307d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhen war becomes personal[electronic resource] soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq /edited by Donald AndersonIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20081 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-680-2 Includes bibliographical references.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; ContributorsDonald 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 veteranSoldiersUnited StatesBiographyAnecdotesSoldiers' writings, AmericanUnited StatesHistory, MilitaryAnecdotesUnited StatesArmed ForcesBiographyAnecdotesSoldiersSoldiers' writings, American.355.00973Anderson Donald1946 July 9-1500359MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782560403321When war becomes personal3727008UNINA