كتاب
Through the Hitler line: memoirs of an infantry chaplain
| العنوان: | Through the Hitler line: memoirs of an infantry chaplain |
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| المؤلفون: | Wilmot, Laurence F., 1907- |
| بيانات النشر: | Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003 |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (148 p.) :) ill., maps, ports., digital file. |
| سلاسل: | Life writing series Life writing series. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Canada. Canadian Army. West Nova Scotia Regiment -- History., Canada. Canadian Army -- Chaplains -- Biography., World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian., World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy., Military chaplains -- Canada -- Biography. |
| الوصف: | Laurence Wilmot's Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot's book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest dressed as a warrior, a man of peace in battle fatigues. He is an incongruous figure in a theatre of war, always vigilant for opportunities to partake of silent meditation and prayer, never failing to lose sight of the larger moral issues of the war. His compassion is boundless, his sensitivity acute, and one senses his mounting emotional and spiritual enervation as the death toll of his fellow serving men steadily mounts. At the centre of the book is Wilmot's witness of the murderous battle at the Arielli. Wilmot's compassion for the fighting men compels him to leave the safety of his ministry and join them at the front, at great personal risk. There, as an unarmed stretcher-bearer, he is kept busy transporting the wounded under enemy fire. In this crucible of battle we see the qualities that attest to Wilmot's character and contribute to his memoir's importance: an indefatigable devotion to his duty to save and comfort the wounded, and a resolve to resist despair in spite of the terrible carnage all around. In short, a singular triumph of the decency of one man in the midst of total war. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Treading Cautiously into the Unknown -- Ministry on the Arielli Front -- Taking Up God's Armour -- Breaking the Hitler Line -- A Tourist in Wartime -- Preparing for the Attack -- Tragedy at Foglia River -- Fierce Fighting and Close Calls -- A Time of Stress and a Moment of Rest -- Roman Holiday, Russi Road -- Prayers for the Fallen -- Liberating Holland -- The Guns Fall Silent. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-88920-554-3 0-88920-554-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013827497.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780889205543 088920554X |
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