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• catalog abstract "War is never more horrifying, and perhaps never more compelling, than when experienced firsthand. The personal accounts collected here - diaries and memoirs written by men on the front lines - constitute a little-known history of American wars. Seven individual narratives cover seven different wars, from the Revolution to the Gulf War:. A young man joins the Continental Army in 1776 because it calls to his restless spirit. He soon learns that soldiers are treated with. Condescension and cruelty and often must endure hunger and floggings. His garrulous, lively, and literate memoir of the Revolution covers much of the eight-year conflict from New York to Yorktown. An eighteen-year-old from Charlestown, Massachusetts, signs up to be a bugler with the First New England Cavalry in the Civil War and immediately finds himself on the receiving end of one of the celebrated operations of military history - the baffling Shenandoah campaign of. Stonewall Jackson. During World War I a high school teacher from Kalamazoo joins the American ambulance corps and is stationed with the French army at Verdun, the epicenter of World War I. Besides recounting the bizarre world at the front lines, the diarist also describes a tortured love affair. A Texas farm boy raised during the Depression learns to fly sixty-mile-an-hour biplanes as a teenager. In World War II he enlists as a navy carrier pilot and serves in one of the. Most hazardous theaters of war in American history - the American retaking of the Pacific. From New Guinea to Okinawa, he flies against the Imperial Fleet and air force, loses seven roommates in as many months, and earns the Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. A twenty-four-year-old college graduate and ROTC officer volunteers for Vietnam because he is moved by stories of U.S. military "advisors" being killed in action. He serves. During the infamous Tet Offensive, heading a platoon that leads the relief of the marines besieged at Khe Sanh and walking for days in the jungles of the A Shau Valley on search-and-destroy sweeps. In their immediacy, drama, and plain-spoken eloquence, these accounts touch the inner lives of people serving as soldiers. These are not the important commanders, not the generals, but the hands and feet of war, the true insiders. Their narratives provide a vital and important. Complement to more traditional histories. A superb piece of contemporary scholarship that will be of particular interest to readers of American history and military history, For Our Beloved Country will also be enjoyed by all readers who love great literature.".
• catalog contributor b5344579.
• catalog contributor b5344580.
• catalog contributor b5344581.
• catalog coverage "United States Armed Forces Diaries.".
• catalog coverage "United States History, Military Sources.".
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Complement to more traditional histories. A superb piece of contemporary scholarship that will be of particular interest to readers of American history and military history, For Our Beloved Country will also be enjoyed by all readers who love great literature.".
• catalog description "Condescension and cruelty and often must endure hunger and floggings. His garrulous, lively, and literate memoir of the Revolution covers much of the eight-year conflict from New York to Yorktown. An eighteen-year-old from Charlestown, Massachusetts, signs up to be a bugler with the First New England Cavalry in the Civil War and immediately finds himself on the receiving end of one of the celebrated operations of military history - the baffling Shenandoah campaign of.".
• catalog description "During the infamous Tet Offensive, heading a platoon that leads the relief of the marines besieged at Khe Sanh and walking for days in the jungles of the A Shau Valley on search-and-destroy sweeps. In their immediacy, drama, and plain-spoken eloquence, these accounts touch the inner lives of people serving as soldiers. These are not the important commanders, not the generals, but the hands and feet of war, the true insiders. Their narratives provide a vital and important.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-498).".
• catalog description "Most hazardous theaters of war in American history - the American retaking of the Pacific. From New Guinea to Okinawa, he flies against the Imperial Fleet and air force, loses seven roommates in as many months, and earns the Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. A twenty-four-year-old college graduate and ROTC officer volunteers for Vietnam because he is moved by stories of U.S. military "advisors" being killed in action. He serves.".
• catalog description "Stonewall Jackson. During World War I a high school teacher from Kalamazoo joins the American ambulance corps and is stationed with the French army at Verdun, the epicenter of World War I. Besides recounting the bizarre world at the front lines, the diarist also describes a tortured love affair. A Texas farm boy raised during the Depression learns to fly sixty-mile-an-hour biplanes as a teenager. In World War II he enlists as a navy carrier pilot and serves in one of the.".
• catalog description "The war of American Independence -- The Civil War -- The Spanish- American War -- World War I -- World War II : the war in the Pacific -- The Vietnam War -- The Gulf War.".
• catalog description "War is never more horrifying, and perhaps never more compelling, than when experienced firsthand. The personal accounts collected here - diaries and memoirs written by men on the front lines - constitute a little-known history of American wars. Seven individual narratives cover seven different wars, from the Revolution to the Gulf War:. A young man joins the Continental Army in 1776 because it calls to his restless spirit. He soon learns that soldiers are treated with.".
• catalog extent "ix, 498 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0871135493 (cloth) :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Atlantic Monthly Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Armed Forces Diaries.".
• catalog spatial "United States History, Military Sources.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "973 20".
• catalog subject "E181 .F67 1994".
• catalog subject "Soldiers United States Diaries.".
• catalog subject "Soldiers' writings, American.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The war of American Independence -- The Civil War -- The Spanish- American War -- World War I -- World War II : the war in the Pacific -- The Vietnam War -- The Gulf War.".
• catalog title "For our beloved country : American war diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf / edited by Speer Morgan and Greg Michalson.".
• catalog type "Diaries. fast".
• catalog type "Military history. fast".
• catalog type "Sources. fast".
• catalog type "text".