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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Wiener; Veterans History Project (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 0792241894 9780792241898 9780792262077 0792262077 |
| OCLC Number: | 60931490 |
| Notes: | "Library of Congress Veterans History Project." Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Present at the beginning / Raymond Brittain -- First into Europe / Albert Hassenzahl -- The modern near-ace / Robert Powell -- The soldier of 10,000 rounds / John Sudyk -- Addressing spirituality / Raffi Bahadarian -- The spirit if not the letter / Hillie John Franz -- The second time around / Kenneth Ray Rodgers -- Everybody's bud / Asa Charles Ball -- Joining the brotherhood / Richard DeLeon -- The illusion of brotherhood / Robert Dunning -- The self-contained soldier / Philip Randazzo -- The careful soldier / Charles Remsburg -- Into action with the boys / Ruth Deloris Buckley -- The reluctant physician / Dodson Curry -- Holding back nothing / Eugene Curtin -- The little sister / Julia Grabner Haskell -- The straight-arrow nurse / Frances Liberty -- Healing hands / Wendy Wamsley Taines -- The forgiving nurse / Carolyn Hisako Tanaka -- The unsung pioneer / Darlene Iskra -- The grateful pioneer / Augustus Prince -- Too proud to bow / Bertran Wallace -- Eager for a fight / Norman Ikari -- Not playing it safe / Yeiichi Kelly Kuwayama -- Cool under fire / Harold Lippard -- The ultimate survivor / Giles McCoy -- Doing something honorable / Rhonda Cornum -- The man of faith / Roger Dean Ingvalson -- The man of confidence / Johann Kasten IV -- The inevitable warrior / John McCain -- The stubborn Spaniard / Jośe Mares -- The last prisoner / Harold Riley -- The soldier who wouldn't surrender / John Stensby -- The lucky POW / Milton Stern -- The liberator / James Dorris -- Confidant to the Nazis / John Dolibois -- A patriot for his time / Denton Winslow Crocker, Jr. |
| Responsibility: | [edited] by Tom Wiener. |
Abstract:
Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
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