When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587296802
• ISBN13: 9781587296802
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 9.0"