The Chaplain's Conflict : Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945 / Tennant McWilliams.
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TextSeries: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history seriesPublication details: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781603446891
- 1603446893
- 1280772395
- 9781280772399
- 9786613683168
- 6613683167
- Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd
- United States. Army -- Chaplains
- Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 102nd
- United States. Army
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States
- Military chaplains -- United States
- Military chaplains -- Presbyterian Church
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Aumôniers -- États-Unis
- Aumôniers militaires -- États-Unis
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Campagnes et batailles -- Front occidental
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Histoire des unités -- États-Unis
- HISTORY -- Military -- World War II
- Armed Forces -- Chaplains
- Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
- Chaplains
- Military campaigns
- Military chaplains
- Regimental histories
- United States
- Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- 940.54/78092 23
- D810.C36
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Print version record.
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
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