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010 $a 2005007878
020 $a0295985364 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM58648193
035 $a(NNC)5476763
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050 00 $aD767$b.C565 2005
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100 1 $aClubb, Merrel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005020949
245 12 $aA life disturbed :$bmy Pacific war revisited /$cMerrel Clubb.
260 $aSeattle :$bUniversity of Washington Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axi, 240 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-240).
520 1 $a"Merrel Clubb has gathered the letters he sent his parents from the Pacific Theater of World War II and his subsequent reflections on that war and on his life into a kind of then-and-now memoir. The letters are a treasure trove of humor, anxiety, and hope, revealing a young man thrust into a war that he does not understand. Through this exceptional portal on the past, we learn of the tragic absurdity of war; of a soldier trained for naval warfare but sent into land battle with weapons he had never before fired; of command post latrines at which even commanding officers were sitting ducks; of the ghoulish trophies and mementos that soldiers collected from the battlefields." "The letters describe a vivid cast of characters, from Clubb's childhood friend who instilled a love of poetry in his comrades to the hillbilly singer and the prostitute with whom the young Clubb had amorous adventures. But the most compelling figure in this narrative is, of course, Clubb himself, an intellectual who packed Jane Austen and Joseph Conrad along with his tommy gun; who used books as a fortification for his foxhole, discovering upon waking one morning that "Ouspensky stopped a bullet"."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aClubb, Merrel$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPacific Area.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113866
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113356
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAmphibious operations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148279
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xOfficers$vCorrespondence.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007878.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hD767$i.C565 2005