Binding up the wounds : an American soldier in occupied Germany, 1945--1946 / Leon C. Standifer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Standifer, Leon C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military government--Germany.

Military government.

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Biography.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

Soldiers--United States--Biography.

Soldiers.

Standifer, Leon C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his highly acclaimed Not in Vain, Leon C. Standifer recounted his experiences as a small-town Mississippi boy who at age nineteen found himself fighting as a combat infantryman in World War II France and Germany. Binding up the Wounds carries the story beyond V-E Day to describe what the author saw, heard, felt, and learned as a member of the American occupation army in the homeland of its defeated enemy.Standifer, who served in the 94th Infantry Division in western Germany, the Sudetenland, and Bavaria in the first year of occupation, chronicles that unique and chaotic time from the viewpo

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Thou Preparest a Table Before Me; 2. Valley of the Roses; 3. Useful Articles; 4. Infantry, Pass in Review!; 5. Combat Troops; 6. Somewheres East of Suez; 7. For Thus Shall the Lord Do; 8. Showtime!; 9. Never Sheathe It Without Honor; 10. And the Lives You Lived Were Mine; Afterword and Thanks; Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807161494

0807161497

9780807161487

0807161489

9780585300030

0585300038

OCLC:

45733249