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Through the Hitler Line [electronic resource] : Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (167 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781554588220
  • 1554588227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Through the Hitler Line : Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain.DDC classification:
  • 940.54 940.54/78 940.54/78/092
LOC classification:
  • D810 .C36 C39 2006
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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.

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