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By William V. Spanos

ISBN-10: 0803226810

ISBN-13: 9780803226814

Like such a lot of squaddies of his iteration, William V. Spanos was once now not even more than a boy whilst he went off to struggle in international struggle II. within the chaos of his first conflict, what may later develop into mythical because the conflict of the Bulge, he was once separated from his antitank gun group and brought prisoner within the Ardennes woodland. in addition to a procession of different prisoners of warfare, he used to be marched and conveyed by means of freight teach to Dresden. Surviving the brutal stipulations of the hard work camps and the Allies’ devastating firebombing of town, he escaped because the wasting German military retreated.
 
For Spanos, this was once by no means a “war story.” It was once the singular, irreducible, unnameable, dreadful adventure of warfare. within the face of the yank fantasy of the best iteration, this popular literary student appears again at the moment and crafts a dissident, dissonant remembrance of the “just war.” Retrieving the singularity of the adventure of battle from the grip of legit American cultural reminiscence, Spanos recaptures whatever of the boy’s existence that he misplaced. His booklet is an try and rescue a few semblance of his woke up being—and that of the multitude of younger males who fought—from the oblivion to which they've been relegated less than the banalizing memorialization of the “sacrifices of our best generation.”

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