War is never more horrifying, and perhaps never more compelling, than when experienced firsthand. The personal accounts collected here - diaries and memoirs written by men on the front lines - constitute a little-known history of American wars. Seven individual narratives cover seven different wars,...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
Ausgabe:	1. ed., 1. print.
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1776-1991 Soldiers > United States > Diaries Soldiers' writings, American Krieg USA United States > Armed Forces > Diaries United States > History, Military > Sources Quelle Tagebuch
Zusammenfassung:	War is never more horrifying, and perhaps never more compelling, than when experienced firsthand. The personal accounts collected here - diaries and memoirs written by men on the front lines - constitute a little-known history of American wars. Seven individual narratives cover seven different wars, from the Revolution to the Gulf War:. A young man joins the Continental Army in 1776 because it calls to his restless spirit. He soon learns that soldiers are treated with condescension and cruelty and often must endure hunger and floggings. His garrulous, lively, and literate memoir of the Revolution covers much of the eight-year conflict from New York to Yorktown. An eighteen-year-old from Charlestown, Massachusetts, signs up to be a bugler with the First New England Cavalry in the Civil War and immediately finds himself on the receiving end of one of the celebrated operations of military history - the baffling Shenandoah campaign of Stonewall Jackson. During World War I a high school teacher from Kalamazoo joins the American ambulance corps and is stationed with the French army at Verdun, the epicenter of World War I. Besides recounting the bizarre world at the front lines, the diarist also describes a tortured love affair. A Texas farm boy raised during the Depression learns to fly sixty-mile-an-hour biplanes as a teenager. In World War II he enlists as a navy carrier pilot and serves in one of the
Beschreibung:	IX, 498 S.
ISBN:	0871135493