The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II - Softcover

Linderman, Gerald F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674962028 ISBN 13: 9780674962026

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself. He argues that the grim logic of protracted combat threatened soldiers not only with the loss of limbs and lives but with growing isolation from country and commanders and, ultimately, with psychological disintegration.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

An eminent social historian who writes of combat like a novelist, Linderman tells what it was really like to experience combat in World War II.-John Lehman, Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

Gerald F. Linderman is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0674962028
• ISBN 13: 9780674962026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416