Standing down : from warrior to civilian / selected and edited by Donald H. Whitfield ; contributors, Nancy Carr, Louise Galpine, Patrick Hurley, Kaara Kallen, Mary Klein, James Meredith, Dylan Nelson, Mary Williams ; foreword by Benjamin Busch.
To the fallen / John McCary. The Melian dialogue / Thucydides -- Henry VI, part I (selection) / William Shakespeare -- Letters / New York legislature ; George Washington -- On discipline in democratic armies / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- On caregiving / Walt Whitman -- War and peace (selection) / Leo Tolstoy -- The moral equivalent of war / William James -- Why war? / Sigmund Freud -- An Irish airman foresees his death / William Butler Yeats -- The veteran / Stephen Crane -- Italian ordeal surprises congress / Anne O'Hare McCormick -- Poems / Wilfred Owen -- To a conscript of 1940 / Herbert Read -- Soldier's home / Ernest Hemingway -- Reporting the war in Tunisia / Ernie Pyle -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- A negro looks at this war / J. Saunders Redding -- These terrible records of war / James Agee -- Tarawa: the story of a battle (selection) / Robert Sherrod -- The price we pay in Italy / Eric Sevareid -- Revisiting my memoir / Edward W. Wood Jr. -- Village / Estela Portillo Trambley -- It is dangerous to read newspapers / Margaret Atwood -- A rumor of war (selection) / Philip Caputo -- What it is like to go to war (selection) / Karl Marlantes -- In pharaoh's army (selection) / Tobias Wolff -- The things they carried (selection) / Tim O'Brien -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa -- A piece of my heart (selection) / Anne Simon Auger as told to Keith Walker -- A journey taken with my son / Myrna E. Bein -- Reclamation / John Berens -- The good soldiers (selection) / David Finkel -- The boy without a flag / Abraham Rodriguez Jr. -- Perimeter watch / Brian Turner -- Dust to dust (selection) / Benjamin Busch -- Medevac missions / Ed Hrivnak -- You know when the men are gone (selection) / Siobhan Fallon -- Veterans / Brian Humphreys -- The hardest letter to write / Parker Gyokeres -- Shallow hands / Michael Poggi -- To the fallen / John McCary.
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