Voices of War: Stories of Service from the Home Front and the Front Lines - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1435141946 ISBN 13: 9781435141940

Publisher: National Geographic, 2004

Synopsis

The experience of war has affected every generation in the 20th and 21st century. Every soldier has a story to tell, and since the year 2000 the Veteran's History Project, a new permanent department of the Library of Congress, has been carefully collecting and preserving the memories of the veterans of all wars. The collection is astonishing in its scope. In addition to more than 50,000 recorded oral histories, the VHP has amassed thousands of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, and invaluable mementos from nearly a century of warfare.In the first book to showcase the richness and depth of this collection historian TK has organized the book into chapters by themes common to all war experiences: Basic Training, First Combat, Courage, Special Bonds, Fate, Fun, and Coming Home. Short introductory essays introduce each topic, but historian TK then allows the veterans their chance to speak, deftly interweaving the letters, photographs, sketches, and pages of compelling oral history of U.S. veterans' experiences in World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Brief connecting passages provide background information where necessary. Readers will discover the extraordinary memoirs of men like John Casper Wister, a so-called "ordinary soldier" who vividly described army life in World War I and tried to warn his fellow soldiers about Germany's threat in the years following the war.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1435141946
• ISBN 13: 9781435141940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320