When war becomes personal : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq / edited by Donald Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Donald, 1946 July 9-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--United States--Biography--Anecdotes.

Soldiers.

Soldiers' writings, American.

United States--History, Military--Anecdotes.

United States.

United States--Armed Forces--Biography--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781587297052

1587297051

OCLC:

294903782