The chaplain's conflict [electronic resource] : good and evil in a war hospital, 1943-1945 / Tennant McWilliams.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (144 p.)ISBN: - 9781603446891
- 1603446893
- Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985
- United States. Army -- Chaplains
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- Military chaplains -- Presbyterian Church
- Military chaplains -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States
- 940.54/78092 23
- D810.C36 U66 2012
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.
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