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When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq
Donald Anderson (Ed.)
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Description for When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq
Paperback. An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away much of the romance, myth, and fantasy. Editor(s): Anderson, Donald. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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' 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 Jason Armagost ... Read more
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' 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 Jason Armagost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587296802
SKU
V9781587296802
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Ref
99-3
About Donald Anderson (Ed.)
Donald Anderson teaches literature and creative writing at the United States Air Force Academy, where he edits War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. His collection of short stories, Fire Road, received the 2001 John Simmons Short Fiction Award (IOWA). He is the editor of Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction and Andre Dubus: A Tribute. ... Read more
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