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A Private's Memory of WWII (Hardcover)
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A Private's Memory of WWII (Hardcover)
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This is a story of war and of combat; but not of front-line action.
This rather deals with men in the backwash of war, in that area
between the front lines and safe places far in the rear; and it
puts this in the context of larger actions. It is told solely from
the point of view of an enlisted man; specifically, it is the view
of a man who went in a private and came out a private, who served
in five campaigns in Europe, and along the way, together with his
friends, participated in the Liberation of Paris, where they
remained for over two months. This concentrates on the daily lives
and actions of men in that peculiar state of being; men prepared
for combat and expecting combat (ultimately), and meanwhile living
comparatively free from constraint in a foreign culture, for a
time. Some of the men at last reached front lines, in the last
battles in Europe. This is a story also of black-marketeering,
major and minor, with severe sentences meted out for trivial
causes, and of one man (fellow soldier with the author) sentenced
to die for desertion; a story also of love, sex, honor, betrayals,
and courage. While knowing the necessity of this war, the author
comes out at last with a jaundiced view of huge armies and of
governments that feed on them.
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