Archives of Memory : a Soldier Recalls World War II

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Label

Archives of Memory : a Soldier Recalls World War II

Title remainder

a Soldier Recalls World War II

Creator

• Hoffman, Alice M., 1929-

Contributor

• Hoffman, Howard S., 1925-2006

Subject

• Personal narratives -- American
• 1939 - 1945
• World War (1939-1945)
• Electronic books
• Oral history
• HISTORY -- Military | General
• Hoffman, Howard S, 1925-2006
• United States, Army -- Biography
• Biography
• United States
• United States, Army
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
• Oral history
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• Soldiers
• Hoffman, Howard S, 1925-2006
• Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
• Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
• Military campaigns
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Western

Genre

• Biography
• Personal narratives, American
• Electronic books
• Personal narratives

Language

eng

Summary

""Tell me about the war""--These words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wife team. Howard Hoffman fought in World War II from Cassino to the Elbe as a mortar crewman and a forward observer. His war experiences are of intrinsic interest to readers who seek a foot soldier's view of those historic events. But the principal purpose of this study was to explore the bounds of memory, to gauge its accuracy and its stability over time, and to determine the effects of various efforts to enhance it. Alice Hoffman, a historian, initiated the study because she recognized the

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography