03242nam 2200709 a 450 991082564680332120230801232011.01-280-77239-597866136831681-60344-689-3(CKB)3170000000046109(EBL)1100918(OCoLC)794240452(SSID)ssj0000582501(PQKBManifestationID)11369968(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582501(PQKBWorkID)10547419(PQKB)11100517(MiAaPQ)EBC1100918(MdBmJHUP)muse15839(Au-PeEL)EBL1100918(CaPaEBR)ebr10561949(CaONFJC)MIL368316(EXLCZ)99317000000004610920110812d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe chaplain's conflict good and evil in a war hospital, 1943-1945 /Tennant McWilliams1st ed.College Station, Tex. Texas A&M University Press20121 online resource (152 p.)Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History SeriesThe 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.1-60344-470-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Finding the war -- pt. 2. France -- pt. 3. Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. 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 anWilliams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History SeriesWorld War, 1939-1945ChaplainsUnited StatesMilitary chaplainsUnited StatesMilitary chaplainsPresbyterian ChurchWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, AmericanWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsWestern FrontWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesUnited StatesWorld War, 1939-1945ChaplainsMilitary chaplainsMilitary chaplainsPresbyterian Church.World War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental histories940.54/78092McWilliams Tennant S.1943-1617179MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825646803321The chaplain's conflict4056944UNINA