The chaplain's conflict: good and evil in a war hospital, 1943-1945
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Main Author: McWilliams, Tennant S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station Texas A&M University Press c2012
Edition:1st ed
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Item Description: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
Overture: goodbye, farewell, amen -- Finding the war -- San Luis Obispo -- Goffs -- New York to Southport -- France -- Utah Beach -- Barneville-le-Carteret and Picauville -- Saint-Pair-sur-Mer -- Ploudaniel -- Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany -- Bastogne and Roumont -- Ettelbruck -- Huy and the Bulge -- Brand and Bad Neuenahr -- Final days in Europe -- Coda: "home, again" -- Commentary on sources
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (136 p.)
ISBN:160344470X
1603446893
9781603444705
9781603446891

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