Army Gi, Pacifist Co: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
Frank and Albert Dietrich were identical twins whose lives took very different directions during World War II. Drafted into the Army Air Corps and trained as a radio operator, Frank was shipped to the Philippines in 1945, where as a sergeant in the Fifth Air Force he prepared for the invasion of Japan. Albert, a pacifist, struggled mightily to become a conscientious objector and spent two years building dams, saving farmland, and helping the poor at Civilian Service Camps in South Dakota, Iowa, and Florida. Raised in a close, religious, Pittsburg family, Frank and Albert were inseparable as boys, sharing a strong social conscience. Divided by…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2378-7
- EAN: 9780823223787
- Produktnummer: 1661634
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 385 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.3 cm 699 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 04
- Gewicht: 699
Über den Autor
Scott H. Bennett is an associate professor of history at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. At Georgian Court, he teaches courses on modern American history, peace history, and nonviolent social movements. He has published and spoken widely on peace history, radical pacifism, nonviolent social movements, and World War II conscientious objectors. He has written Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1923 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution [Syracuse University Press], 2003) and edited Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). He is completing a book manuscript on the lives and World War II prison letters of radical pacifist siblings Igal and Vivien Roodenko. He is president of the Peace History Society.
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