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- Publication Name
- The Chaplain's Conflict
- Title
- The Chaplain's Conflict
- Subtitle
- Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945
- EAN
- 9781603444705
- ISBN
- 9781603444705
- Release Date
- 04/30/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Chaplain's Conflict : Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Religion, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Religious, Military / United States, Clergy, Military
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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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. With Kennedy's war diaries and postwar articles published in Christian Century and Time magazines in front of him, historian Tennant McWilliams spent a year retracing every step, every turn, every location of the 102nd in wartime France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany, compiling rich detail on this episode in Kennedy's life. McWilliams's interviews with citizens of France and Luxembourg who recall the 102nd further revealed local people's reactions to the army hospital that illuminated both Kennedy's severe criticism and his enduring praise for evac life. The result is a candid view of what went on in the World War II evac hospitals. With a nuanced and gritty style, The Chaplain's Conflict shatters the self-interested and sometimes sentimental images of evacs held by some among the medical community. This complex and compelling observation of doctors practicing war-zone medicine in World War II will hold great appeal for readers of military and medical history, as well as those interested in the socio-cultural, ethical, and religious implications of war and military service.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
160344470x
ISBN-13
9781603444705
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038427851
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chaplain's Conflict : Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Religious, Military / United States, Clergy, Military
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion, History
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
137
Lc Classification Number
D810.C36u66 2012
Reviews
"Engaging . . . allows the reader to travel along with the author and his wife to Europe as they . . . retrace the footsteps of US Army Chaplain Renwick C. Kennedy and the 102nd Evacuation Hospital."--Judith Bellafaire, Author of Women Doctors in War, "A compelling citizen-soldier critique focused on the dicier terrains of ''The Greatest Generation.''"--Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump and Conversations with the Enemy , " . . . a remarkable read. . . . Having been wounded twice, I found the descriptions of the 102nd Evacuation Hospital to be compelling. . . . showing . . . where military medicine has been and the importance of where it is going . . . . In many ways, reading The Chaplain's Conflict is like reading a primer on leadership . . . the good and the bad."--Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (RET), former commandant of the US Marine Corps and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, president, Birmingham Southern College, " . . . an honest look at actual day-to-day life in a real-life WWII Army evacuation hospital. Kennedy's story goes deeply and fairly into the most fundamental issues of war."-- ARP Magazine, "Engaging . . . allows the reader to travel along with the author and his wife to Europe as they . . . retrace the footsteps of US Army Chaplain Renwick C. Kennedy and the 102nd Evacuation Hospital." , "Readers will discover an engaging protagonist with a unique perspective on war."--Judith Bellafaire, author, Women Doctors in War, " . . . a remarkable read. . . . Having been wounded twice, I found the descriptions of the 102nd Evacuation Hospital to be compelling. . . . showing . . . where military medicine has been and the importance of where it is going . . . . In many ways, reading The Chaplain's Conflict is like reading a primer on leadership . . . the good and the bad."--USMC (RET), former commandant of the US Marine Corps and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, president, Birmingham Southern College, " . . . a remarkable read. . . . Having been wounded twice, I found the descriptions of the 102nd Evacuation Hospital to be compelling. . . . showing . . . where military medicine has been and the importance of where it is going . . . . In many ways, reading The Chaplain's Conflict is like reading a primer on leadership . . . the good and the bad." -USMC (RET), former commandant of the US Marine Corps and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, president, Birmingham Southern College, "A compelling citizen-soldier critique focused on the dicier terrains of ''The Greatest Generation.''" , "A compelling citizen-soldier critique focused on the dicier terrains of 'The Greatest Generation."--Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump and Conversations with the Enemy, "Stylishly written and meticulously researched, The Chaplain's Conflict does for World War II evacuation hospitals what the M *A*S*H television series did for those of the Korean conflict--and more. It shows us a bloody world of grim moral contradictions through the eyes of a gifted diarist, Renwick C. Kennedy. By tracing Ren's journey from a sleepy Alabama town to the Battle of the Bulge, Tennant McWilliams provides a gripping, surprising new chapter to the story of what some have called 'The Good War.'"--Howell Raines, New York Times former executive editor, "A compelling citizen-soldier critique focused on the dicier terrains of 'The Greatest Generation."--Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump and Conversations with the Enemy , "Engaging . . . allows the reader to travel along with the author and his wife to Europe as they . . . retrace the footsteps of US Army Chaplain Renwick C. Kennedy and the 102nd Evacuation Hospital."--Judith Bellafaire, Author of Women Doctors in War , " . . . a remarkable read. . . . Having been wounded twice, I found the descriptions of the 102nd Evacuation Hospital to be compelling. . . . showing . . . where military medicine has been and the importance of where it is going . . . . In many ways, reading The Chaplain's Conflict is like reading a primer on leadership . . . the good and the bad."--Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (RET), former commandant of the US Marine Corps and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, president, Birmingham Southern College, "Stylishly written and meticulously researched, The Chaplain's Conflict does for World War II evacuation hospitals what the M *A*S*H television series did for those of the Korean conflict--and more. It shows us a bloody world of grim moral contradictions through the eyes of a gifted diarist, Renwick C. Kennedy. By tracing Ren's journey from a sleepy Alabama town to the Battle of the Bulge, Tennant McWilliams provides a gripping, surprising new chapter to the story of what some have called 'The Good War.'"--Howell Raines, New York Times former executive editor , "This is a must read for any military chaplain and medical officer...This book will serve as an important insight into the role of a chaplain as a principle staff officer."--Farrar Bentley, East Texas Historical Journal, "Stylishly written and meticulously researched, The Chaplain's Conflict does for World War II evacuation hospitals what the M *A*S*H television series did for those of the Korean conflict-and more. It shows us a bloody world of grim moral contradictions through the eyes of a gifted diarist, Renwick C. Kennedy. By tracing Ren's journey from a sleepy Alabama town to the Battle of the Bulge, Tennant McWilliams provides a gripping, surprising new chapter to the story of what some have called 'The Good War.'"--Howell Raines, New York Times former executive editor , "Stylishly written and meticulously researched, The Chaplain''s Conflict does for World War II evacuation hospitals what the M *A*S*H television series did for those of the Korean conflict-and more. It shows us a bloody world of grim moral contradictions through the eyes of a gifted diarist, Renwick C. Kennedy. By tracing Ren''s journey from a sleepy Alabama town to the Battle of the Bulge, Tennant McWilliams provides a gripping, surprising new chapter to the story of what some have called ''The Good War.''"--Howell Raines, New York Times former executive editor
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2011-034421
Dewey Decimal
940.54/78092
Series
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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