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

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

Genre

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

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