The chaplain's conflict : good and evil in a war hospital, 1943-1945 / Tennant McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Tennant S., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985.

Kennedy, Renwick C.

United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd.

United States.

World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

United States. Army--Chaplains.

United States. Army.

Chaplains.

Military chaplains--United States.

Military chaplains.

Presbyterian Church.

Military chaplains--Presbyterian Church.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xi, 136 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Overture: goodbye, farewell, amen

Finding the war

San Luis Obispo

Goffs

New York to Southport

France

Utah Beach

Barneville-le-Carteret and Picauville

Saint-Pair-sur-Mer

Ploudaniel

Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany

Bastogne and Roumont

Ettelbruck

Huy and the Bulge

Brand and Bad Neuenahr

Final days in Europe

Coda: "home, again"

Commentary on sources.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603444705

160344470X

9781603446891

1603446893

OCLC:

747947299