TY  - GEN
T1  - When war becomes personal : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A2  - Anderson, Donald, 1946 July 9-
LA  - English
PP  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn294903782
AB  - 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 Jason Armagost traces his journey to Iraq through the history of literature and the books he brought with him to the war zone. The thirteen essays in When War Becomes Personal tell the enduring truths of battle, stripping away much of the romance, myth, and fantasy. Soldiers more than anyone know what they are capable of destroying; when they write about war, they are trying to preserve the world. -- Publisher's Description.
OP  - 243
CN  - E181 .W565 2008eb
SN  - 9781587297052
SN  - 1587297051
SN  - 9781587296802
SN  - 1587296802
KW  - United States : History, Military : Anecdotes.
KW  - Soldiers : United States : Biography : Anecdotes.
KW  - United States : Armed Forces : Biography : Anecdotes.
KW  - Soldiers' writings, American.
KW  - HISTORY : Military.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Soldiers' writings, American
KW  - United States
KW  - United States : Military history : Anecdotes.
KW  - United States : Armed forces : Biography : Anecdotes.
KW  - Soldiers' writings.
KW  - collective biographies.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Military history
KW  - Biographies.
KW  - Anecdotes.
ER  -