TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beard,Richard
AU  - Beard,Reva
AU  - Pinkerton,Elaine
TI  - From Calcutta with love: the World War II letters of Richard and Reva Beard 
SN  - 1423763319
AV  - D811.5 .B28 2002eb
U1  - 940.54/8173 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Lubbock, Tex.
PB  - Texas Tech University Press
KW  - Beard, Richard,
KW  - Beard, Reva,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - fast
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Clinical psychologists
KW  - Housewives
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Psychologues cliniciens
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Correspondance
KW  - Femmes au foyer
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Asie méridionale
KW  - Asie du Sud-Est
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - World War II
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Offizier
KW  - gnd
KW  - Weltkrieg
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - Briefsammlung
KW  - Heer
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - hilcc
KW  - History - General
KW  - Südostasien
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - American
KW  - Personal correspondence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-333) and index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - The saga of China, Burma, India-World War II's forgotten theater-is as heroic as it is seldom told. CBI ground troops were charged with the Herculean task of carving a road from India to China through humid jungles where disease was as great a hazard as the Japanese, and pilots who "flew the Hump," the treacherous flight route over the Himalayas, braved violent monsoon rains, deadly wind shifts, and mountainsides that suddenly loomed from the clouds. Richard Beard, an Army psychologist assigned to the 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta, dealt daily with emotional trauma. While American and British soldiers hacked their way through dense tropical forests to build the supply route, Beard immersed himself in the internal jungles of those he treated. A pillar to the men he served, Beard was an astute listener and observer, pleased to be playing his part. But his own pillar was his wife, Reva, teaching school half a world away in Findlay, Ohio. In daily letters to Reva, he poured out not only his observations of life in India but also his own longing and passions, and the unfolding drama of war, in painfully exquisite detail tempered with tenderness and humor. Reva's return letters are filled with news of the home front and stories of her young students, but through them all courses a longing for Richard's safe return. In these letters the couple's devotion to each other in the face of separation and their willingness to see the war through to its end demonstrate once again the dedication of the World War II generation
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