TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilmot,MC,Laurence F.
TI  - Through the Hitler Line: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain
SN  - 9781554588220
AV  - D810 .C36 C39 2006 
U1  - 940.54940.54/78940.54/78/092 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Waterloo
PB  - Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Canada
KW  - Canadian Army
KW  - Chaplains
KW  - Biography
KW  - West Nova Scotia Regiment
KW  - History
KW  - Canada. Canadian Army
KW  - Canada. Canadian Army. West Nova Scotia Regiment
KW  - Chaplains, Military
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Italy
KW  - Personal narratives, Canadian
KW  - Military chaplains
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Western
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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