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The Chaplain's Conflict. Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945.
Tennant S. McWilliams
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Description for The Chaplain's Conflict. Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945.
The 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. Num Pages: 136 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: BGXA; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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 and postwar articles published in Christian Century and Time magazines in ... Read more
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 and postwar articles published in Christian Century and Time magazines in ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781603444705
SKU
V9781603444705
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About Tennant S. McWilliams
Retired from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was professor of history and dean, Tennant Mcwilliams currently serves as visiting professor of history at Samford University in Birmingham. His other books include The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877-1950
Reviews for The Chaplain's Conflict. Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945.
Readers will discover an engaging protagonist with a unique perspective on war."
Judith Bellafaire, author, Women Doctors in War.
Judith Bellafaire, author, Women Doctors in War.