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Author Beard, Richard, 1909-1997.

Title From Calcutta with love : the World War II letters of Richard and Reva Beard / edited by Elaine Pinkerton ; foreword by Wendall A. Phillips ; introduction by Otha Spencer
Published Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 352 pages) : illustrations
Summary The saga of China, Burma, India-World War II's forgotten theater-is as heroic as it is seldom told. CBI ground troops were charged with the Herculean task of carving a road from India to China through humid jungles where disease was as great a hazard as the Japanese, and pilots who "flew the Hump," the treacherous flight route over the Himalayas, braved violent monsoon rains, deadly wind shifts, and mountainsides that suddenly loomed from the clouds. Richard Beard, an Army psychologist assigned to the 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta, dealt daily with emotional trauma. While American and British soldiers hacked their way through dense tropical forests to build the supply route, Beard immersed himself in the internal jungles of those he treated. A pillar to the men he served, Beard was an astute listener and observer, pleased to be playing his part. But his own pillar was his wife, Reva, teaching school half a world away in Findlay, Ohio. In daily letters to Reva, he poured out not only his observations of life in India but also his own longing and passions, and the unfolding drama of war, in painfully exquisite detail tempered with tenderness and humor. Reva's return letters are filled with news of the home front and stories of her young students, but through them all courses a longing for Richard's safe return. In these letters the couple's devotion to each other in the face of separation and their willingness to see the war through to its end demonstrate once again the dedication of the World War II generation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-333) and index
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Subject Beard, Richard, 1909-1997 -- Correspondence
Beard, Reva, 1914- -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Beard, Reva, 1914- fast
Beard, Richard, 1909-1997 fast
Subject United States. Army -- Officers -- Correspondence.
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Clinical psychologists -- United States -- Correspondence
Housewives -- United States -- Correspondence
World War, 1939-1945 -- South Asia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Southeast Asia
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Armed Forces -- Officers
Clinical psychologists
Housewives
Offizier
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
Briefsammlung
Heer
History & Archaeology.
History - General.
Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
South Asia
Southeast Asia
United States
Südostasien
USA
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Personal correspondence
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Beard, Reva, 1914-
Pinkerton, Elaine
LC no. 2001004254
ISBN 1423763319
9781423763314
1281093211
9781281093219
9786611093211
6611093214