
When War Becomes Personal
Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq
Donald Anderson(Editor)
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-58729-680-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1-Simul
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58729-680-2 (9781587296802)
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05/2009
University Of Iowa Press
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Person
Donald Anderson teaches literature and creative writing at the United States Air Force Academy, where he edits War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. His collection of short stories, Fire Road, received the 2001 John Simmons Short Fiction Award (IOWA). He is the editor of Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction and Andre Dubus: A Tribute. The recipient of a Creative Writer's Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado.