【BOOK LOVERS专享210元】World War II Memoirs: The European Theater 二战回忆录 欧洲战场 Library of America 美国文库 英文英语原版 美国作家最权威版本 当今装帧典范 布面封皮琐线装订 丝带标记 圣经无酸纸薄而不透保存几个世纪不泛黄
The year 2024 marks the eightieth anniversary of the Allied assault on Nazi-occupied Europe—a massive undertaking that destroyed the Third Reich and transformed the world. Survivors of that pivotal campaign are now vanishingly few, and World War II Memoirs: The European Theater serves to recognize their valor and preserve their remarkable testimonies. The companion volume to an earlier edition focused on the Pacific theater, this collection is again edited by West Point professor Elizabeth D. Samet. It brings together five books that capture a range of American experiences of the war, from the “cold, dirty, rough, frightened, and miserable” life of GIs recounted in Charles B. Macdonald’s Company Commander and J. Glenn Gray’s classic The Warriors; to the haunting aerial combat described by B-17 navigator Elmer Bendiner in The Fall of Fortresses; to Mary Lee Settle’s All the Brave Promises, a memoir of regimented life in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in England; to The Buffalo Saga, James Harden Daugherty’s searing account of his service as a Black soldier in the segregated U.S. Army. Full color endpaper battle maps and restored photos immerse readers in this epoch-defining struggle.
On the 80th anniversary of the war's end, 5 classic memoirs capture firsthand the shock, terror, and courage of the American fight against the Axis powers in Europe "The emotional environment of warfare has always been compelling," writes J. Glenn Gray in his incomparable World War II memoir and mediation, The Warriors. "Reflection and calm reasoning are alien to it." The struggle to make sense of the experience of war, to find some meaning in the savagry and senseless destruction, animates the five brilliant and unforgettable memoirs gathered here.
Company Commander (1947), by Charles B. MacDonald, describes with startling immediacy and candor the "cold, dirty, rough, frightened, miserable" life of the infantryman and company commander from the aftermath of D-Day in September 1944 through the war's terrifying final days. The Warriors (1959), by J. Glenn Gray, a counterintelligence officer who served in Italy, France, and Germany and a scholar with a PhD. in philosophy, is a sensitive and revelatory meditation on the nature of war and its effects on both soldiers and civilians, interspliced with his letters, journals, and wartime memories. All the Brave Promises (1966) is novelist Mary Lee Settle's memoir of her year as an airfield radio operator in the Royal Air Force. Settle brilliantly evokes both the working-class culture of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force's "other ranks" and the petty and demeaning regimentation inherent in military life. The Fall of Fortresses (1980), by former B-17 navigator Elmer Bendiner, vividly recalls the fear and excitement he experienced flying bomber missions deep into Germany in 1943 without fighter escort. The Buffalo Saga (2009) is James Harden Daugherty's heartfelt account of his frontline service as a Black soldier in the 92nd Infantry Division, as he fights the Germans, endures the harsh Italian winter, and confronts the racism of his own army.
This deluxe Library of America volume includes full-color endpaper maps of the European Theater, an eight-page photo insert, an introduction by West Point professor Elizabeth D. Samet, and detailed notes.
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