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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this ... memoir, award-winning poet Brian Turner retraces his war experience--pre-deployment to combat zone, homecoming to aftermath. Free of self-indulgence or self-glorification, his account combines recollection with the imagination's efforts to make reality comprehensible. Across time, he seeks parallels in the histories of others who have gone to war, especially his taciturn grandfather (World War II), father (Cold War), and uncle (Vietnam)....
5) Going to war
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What is it really like to go to war? For millennia, only warriors could really answer that question. Now, a new PBS documentary takes viewers inside the experience of battle and reveals the soldier's experiences as never before. It helps viewers make sense of this paradox and get to the heart of what it is like to be a soldier in times of war." --
Series
Criterion collection ; 536
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Adapted from the epic novel by James Jones, a powerful all-star cast explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II." --
Series
Criterion collection ; 535
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between...
