When war becomes personal [[electronic resource] ] : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq / / edited by Donald Anderson

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.00973
• Soggetto topico: Soldiers - United States; Soldiers' writings, American
• Soggetto geografico: United States History, Military Anecdotes; United States Armed Forces Biography Anecdotes
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AndersonDonald <1946 July 9->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: When war becomes personal
• ISBN: 1-58729-705-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454118303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II