| Description |
1 online resource (167 pages) |
| Contents |
LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS; LIST OF MAPS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Treading Cautiously into the Unknown; CHAPTER 2 Ministry on the Arielli Front; CHAPTER 3 Taking Up God's Armour; CHAPTER 4 Breaking the Hitler Line; CHAPTER 5 A Tourist in Wartime; CHAPTER 6 Preparing for the Attack; CHAPTER 7 Tragedy at Foglia River; CHAPTER 8 Fierce Fighting and Close Calls; CHAPTER 9 A Time of Stress and a Moment of Rest; CHAPTER 10 Roman Holiday, Russi Road; CHAPTER 11 Prayers for the Fallen; CHAPTER 12 Liberating Holland; CHAPTER 13 The Guns Fall Silent; GLOSSARY |
| Summary |
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, an |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Canada. Canadian Army -- Chaplains -- Biography
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Canada. Canadian Army. West Nova Scotia Regiment -- History
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Canada. Canadian Army fast |
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Canada. Canadian Army. West Nova Scotia Regiment fast |
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Military chaplains -- Canada -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Armed Forces -- Chaplains
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Military campaigns
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Military chaplains
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Canada
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781554588220 |
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1554588227 |
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