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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Nebraska Pr
Publication date
April 1, 2010
Pages
198
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780803226814
ISBN-10
0803226810
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Original list price
$29.95
Other format details
university press
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Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners of war, he was marched and conveyed by freight train to Dresden. Surviving the brutal conditions of the labor camps and the Alliesâ devastating firebombing of the city, he escaped as the losing German army retreated.
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For Spanos, this was never a âwar story.â It was the singular, irreducible, unnameable, dreadful experience of war. In the face of the American myth of the greatest generation, this renowned literary scholar looks back at that time and crafts a dissident, dissonant remembrance of the âjust war.â Retrieving the singularity of the experience of war from the grip of official American cultural memory, Spanos recaptures something of the boyâs life that he lost. His book is an attempt to rescue some semblance of his awakened beingâand that of the multitude of young men who foughtâfrom the oblivion to which they have been relegated under the banalizing memorialization of the âsacrifices of our greatest generation.â
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from Univ of Nebraska Pr (April 1, 2010)
9780803226814 | details & prices | 198 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $29.95
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