| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 381 pages) |
| Contents |
"Our first baptism of blood": war opens in the Philippines -- "The chaplain is the servant of God for all": chaplains in war training -- "Surely war is a dirty game": the chaplains go to war -- Chaplains at the battlefront: Jnuary 1943 to December 1944 -- "I never expected to come out of the Philippines alive": chaplains in the Pacific, 1943 -- "Daily was I shelled, nightly was I bombed": Father Barry from Sicily to Rome -- "Face to face with the realism, the tragedy, and the horror of the war": Father Sampson at D-Day -- "Our chaplains are becoming more scattered every week": chaplains in the Pacific, 1944 -- Hope Mr. Hitler goes underground before winter": chaplains in Europe to the end of 1944 -- Onward to victory: January 1945 to present -- "I had the devil scared out of me many a time": closing in on Japan -- "Facing the insanity of Himmler's madmen": onward to victory in Europe -- "You could have heard my cheer in Niles": onward to victory in the Pacific -- "I have seen my share of blood, death, mud, hunger and cold": home |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2018) |
| Subject |
University of Notre Dame -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
University of Notre Dame fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States
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Military chaplains -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Chaplains
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Military chaplains
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1939-1945.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jenkins, John I., writer of foreword
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Hesburgh, Theodore M. (Theodore Martin), 1917-2015, writer of introduction.
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| LC no. |
2018025343 |
| ISBN |
9780268103958 |
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026810395X |
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9780268103965 |
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0268103968 |
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