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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Tennant S., 1943-

Series:

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

World War, 1939-1945.

Military chaplains--United States.

Military chaplains.

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.

United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd.

United States.

United States. Army--Chaplains.

Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985.

Kennedy, Renwick C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 an

Contents:

pt. 1. Finding the war

pt. 2. France

pt. 3. Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany.

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:

1-280-77239-5

9786613683168

1-60344-689-3

OCLC:

794240452