Edel: The Visitable Past: Wartime Pa
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Book Overview
This work is an account of the late Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer's experience as a member of a psychological warfare unit during the liberation of France. It is not only an account of France recovering from its years of occupation, but also a memoir of Edel's days as a young man of letters.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824824318
ISBN13:9780824824310
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:242 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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A different kind of war story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I found this war memoir well worth reading. Drafted in 1943, when he was 35 and not getting along too well with his then wife, Edel's account of his time in the Army, up to the end of the war in Europe, is a fascinating view of a man who was very different, and in a favorable way, from many of his fellow soldiers. He had been a student in Paris in the years from 1928 to 1931 as well as spending time as a journalist in the mid-thirties, so he was a good man to be around when he arrived in Paris on the day of its liberation. His account of the celebration of the liberation of Paris is of high interest, and exciting. Anyone who appreciates wartime memoirs, as I do, will be glad to have read this very well-written account, published in 2000 (after the author's death in 1997).
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