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HOME FRONT SOLDIER: THE STORY OF A GI By Richard Aquila First Edition
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “Very good; practically new but signed by original owner.”
- Personalize
- Yes
- Signed By
- Owner
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- ISBN-10
- 0791440761
- Personalized
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780791440766
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791440761
ISBN-13
9780791440766
eBay Product ID (ePID)
338956
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Publication Name
Home Front Soldier : the Story of a Gi and His Italian American Family During World War II
Language
English
Subject
Military / World War II, United States / 20th Century, Military
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-004321
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"This is one of the richest collections of primary sources I've seen for the study of war and ethnic family. What I like best is the detailed and rhythmic evocation the letters offer of everyday life during wartime. The reader gets to know the writer of the letters quite well, and develops a very good sense of the family dynamics of an extended Italian American family. I'm a social historian, interested in ethnicity, gender, and family, and I found it a totally gripping read. Once I started reading it, I didn't stop. I read it at one sitting!" -- Donna Gabaccia, author of From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930 "This book provides a fascinating glimpse at the impact of World War II on people at home. It is a microcosmic study of the frustrations of serving in the military, and of trying to deal with family issues while performing military duties. The book gives us a vivid sense of Phil Aquila, a working class Italian American who wanted to do his part for the country but sometimes found it was not as easy as it seemed. "Aquila is telling a personal story--the story of his father--but it has a far more universal significance. His splendid introduction provides us with the larger context of ethnic tensions, gender patterns, and the general frustrations of working class life through the experience of one family in America. It could stand by itself as a capsule assessment of the impact of the war, and is a valuable prologue for the fascinating letters that follow. All of this is important social history." -- Allan M. Winkler, Miami University of Ohio
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
940.54/8173
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART 1 Introduction: "What Did You Do in the War, Pop?" PART 2 Letters from a GI on the Home Front, 1944-1946 PART 3 Epilogue: "So Long and God Bless You All" Notes Index
Synopsis
While other collections of letters and memoirs from World War II have dealt with upper-class individuals, officers, or college-educated people, Home Front Soldier is the first to explore the life of an ordinary, working-class, first-generation American. This gripping story of a young soldier, Philip L. Aquila, and his Italian American family during the Second World War includes a detailed introduction, providing historical context to the more than 500 letters that this sergeant wrote to his family back home in Buffalo, New York. Like an epistolary novel, the letters offer an intimate personal history of how a large immigrant family with four sons in the military coped with the daily traumas of World War II. Each of the major and minor plots relates to larger questions in American social history of the 1930s and 1940s, offering fresh insights about family history, gender relations, ethnic and immigration history, and everyday life on the home front. The book also fills a gap in military history by providing detailed information about soldiers stationed in the United States during the war., Presents a multi-layered social history of a soldier and his Italian American family during World War II., Presents a multi-layered social history of a soldier and his Italian American family during World War II. CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title While other collections of letters and memoirs from World War II have dealt with upper-class individuals, officers, or college-educated people, Home Front Soldier is the first to explore the life of an ordinary, working-class, first-generation American. This gripping story of a young soldier, Philip L. Aquila, and his Italian American family during the Second World War includes a detailed introduction, providing historical context to the more than 500 letters that this sergeant wrote to his family back home in Buffalo, New York. Like an epistolary novel, the letters offer an intimate personal history of how a large immigrant family with four sons in the military coped with the daily traumas of World War II. Each of the major and minor plots relates to larger questions in American social history of the 1930s and 1940s, offering fresh insights about family history, gender relations, ethnic and immigration history, and everyday life on the home front. The book also fills a gap in military history by providing detailed information about soldiers stationed in the United States during the war.
LC Classification Number
D811.A646 1999
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