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Back from Tobruk
Bowen, Croswell. Ed(S): Bowen, Betsy Connor
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Description for Back from Tobruk
Croswell Bowen began writing and taking photographs for Back from Tobruk in 1941 while en route with his unit of American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers to serve alongside the British Eighth Army in North Africa. Later a successful journalist and author, Bowen never forgot what he had witnessed during his time in North Africa. Editor(s): Bowen, Betsy Connor. Num Pages: 264 pages, 42 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he would have his mental, emotional, and physical well-being tested beyond anything he ever imagined. Back from Tobruk is the remarkable account of one man’s journey across a world torn apart, with only his camera and his moral convictions to guide him. As Bowen watched the number of wounded and dying soldiers grow, he struggled to understand the very nature of war itself. A lifelong Catholic and devoted pacifist, he tried ... Read more
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he would have his mental, emotional, and physical well-being tested beyond anything he ever imagined. Back from Tobruk is the remarkable account of one man’s journey across a world torn apart, with only his camera and his moral convictions to guide him. As Bowen watched the number of wounded and dying soldiers grow, he struggled to understand the very nature of war itself. A lifelong Catholic and devoted pacifist, he tried ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597979856
SKU
V9781597979856
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About Bowen, Croswell. Ed(S): Bowen, Betsy Connor
BETSY CONNOR BOWEN has worked as a community organizer, elementary school teacher, college instructor and assistant professor, securities analyst, journalist, and filmmaker. She is the author of a young adult novella, Spring Bear, and the editor of her father's World War II memoir, Back from Tobruk (Potomac Books, 2012).
Reviews for Back from Tobruk
As World War II recedes in human memory, we are left largely with statistics, battles, generals, destruction. "Back from Tobruk", Croswell Bowen s memoir of the war in the desert in the summer of 1942 published, at last, more than forty years after his death tells what the war was like for an American attempting to do his part as ... Read more