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The lost soldier : the ordeal of a World War II GI from the home front to the Hürtgen Forest
- Title
- The lost soldier : the ordeal of a World War II GI from the home front to the Hürtgen Forest / Chris J. Hartley.
- Author
- Hartley, Chris J.
- Publication
- Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-9957 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- vi, 343 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- Based on letters and diaries, The Lost Soldier tells the story of a young married couple in WW II. Chris J. Hartley intricately weaves together the threads of the soldier and his wife from their home in North Carolina to the brutal combat of Europe to create an intimate narrative that is at once gripping military history and engaging social history.
- "Pete Lynn was thirty-three years old and married with children when he received a draft notice in March, 1944. Lynn worked in a textile mill, was raising a family, and never expected to be drafted. But when the notice arrived, like so many others, he left home and family to do his duty. By the end of the month, he was training in Texas. By September, he was serving with the 28th Infantry Division in Europe. By November, he was dead. In The lost soldier, a new, unique, and revealing look at World War II, Chris Hartley reconstructs the war of one American soldier, the war of his family back home, and the war of many thousands of GIs and their families in this century-defining conflict."--Dust jacket flap.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 I Love You Best of All -- ch. 2 You Have Now Been Selected -- ch. 3 This Sandy Place They Call Texas -- ch. 4 The Best Little City in the World -- ch. 5 I Wish the Ole Army Would Be Over -- ch. 6 Here I Lay in My Pup Tent Many Many Miles from You -- ch. 7 Gentlemen from Hell -- ch. 8 I Will Always Love You till the Day I Die -- ch. 9 Bottom Fell Out -- ch. 10 Home Before Thanksgiving.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9957
- ISBN
- 0811737799
- 9780811737791
- LCCN
- 2017279875
- OCLC
- 1052097377
- Author
- Hartley, Chris J., author.
- Title
- The lost soldier : the ordeal of a World War II GI from the home front to the Hürtgen Forest / Chris J. Hartley.
- Publisher
- Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1944
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9957