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Author Post, Gaines, 1937-

Title Memoirs of a Cold War son / by Gaines Post, Jr. ; foreword by Albert E. Stone.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Singular lives
Singular lives.
Contents Rue St-Julien-le-Pauvre -- Americans Abroad -- The Home Front -- From Cornell to Fort Sill -- Honest Johns and Germans -- Maneuvers -- War over Berlin? -- Epilogue.
Summary In 1951 Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled, introspective teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his professorial father and older brother; his mother, who suffered from extreme depression, had been absent from the family for some time. Ten years later, now less gangly but no less introspective, he was finishing a two-year stint in the army in West Germany and heading toward Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, having narrowly escaped combat in the Berlin crisis of 1961.
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Subject Post, Gaines, 1937-
Post, Gaines, 1937-
Post, Gaines, 1937-
Cold War (1945-1989)
Cold War.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject Europe -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Europe.
Chronological Term 1945-
Since 1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Post, Gaines, 1937- Memoirs of a Cold War son. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2000 0877457018 (DLC) 99057732
ISBN 1587293048 (electronic book)
9781587293047 (electronic book)
9780877457015
0877457018