| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
The author based the book on Rev. Kennedy's letters, war diaries, and post-war magazine articles, as well as a personal yearlong trip retracing Kennedy's war locales, including conducting interviews with local citizens about their war remembrances. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overture: goodbye, farewell, amen -- Finding the war -- San Luis Obispo -- Goffs -- New York to Southport -- France -- Utah Beach -- Barneville-le-Carteret and Picauville -- Saint-Pair-sur-Mer -- Ploudaniel -- Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany -- Bastogne and Roumont -- Ettelbruck -- Huy and the Bulge -- Brand and Bad Neuenahr -- Final days in Europe -- Coda: "home, again" -- Commentary on sources. |
| Summary |
As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--""Ren"" to those who knew him--witnessed great courage, extreme talent, and many lives snatched from the precipice of death, all under the most trying conditions. He also observed drug and alcohol abuse, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and chronic depression. What he saw, he chronicled in his journal, and what he wrote, he processed with an intellectual and ethical rigor born of his remarkably sophisticated worldview and his deeply held Christian faith. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985.
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Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985. |
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United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd.
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United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd. |
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United States. Army -- Chaplains.
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United States. Army. |
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Chaplains. |
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Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985. |
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United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd -- Chaplains. |
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United States. Army -- Chaplains. |
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Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States.
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Military chaplains -- United States.
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Military chaplains. |
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United States. |
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Military chaplains -- Presbyterian Church.
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Presbyterian Church. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives -- American.
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| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
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Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McWilliams, Tennant S., 1943- Chaplain's conflict. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2012 9781603444705 (DLC) 2011034421 (OCoLC)747947299 |
| ISBN |
9781603446891 (electronic book) |
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1603446893 (electronic book) |
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9781603444705 |
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160344470X |
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