About This Book
A collection of personal wartime reminiscences and essays that traces enlistment, the makeup and character of the fighting force, homefront attitudes, economic strains, notable commanders and colorful personalities, and bureaucratic frustrations, culminating in the conflict's end and its aftermath. The pieces blend anecdote and character sketch with reflective commentary on honor, loss, and social customs, and conclude with an extended essay situating those memories within the region's earlier social and political order.
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