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Cargando... The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War IIpor Gerald F. Linderman
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Letters from home, or the lack thereof, would lift the soldiers' spirits or leave them in the doldrums. However, they often felt they were living totally distinct lives from the lives they lived at home. They behaved with a different code of honor, often in ways that would have shocked their families. Some men even put away all memorabilia from home, finding that it interferred with their functioning in this different world. ( )