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Hardback. New. Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war. And millions of young men have, in fact, come of age in combat. This is the story of one of them, as told by his daughter, based on the daily letters he wrote to his family in 1944 and 1945.After ten months of stateside training, nineteen-year-old Joe Ted (Bud) Miller shipped out from New York harbor in November 1944 and served with the 63rd Infantry in France and Germany. Although he fought with his unit at the Colmar Pocket and earned a Bronze Star for his role in pushing through the Siegfried Line, his letters focus less on the details of battle than on the many aspects of his life in the military: food, PX, movies, biographies of friends and platoon-mates, training activities, travelogues, and the behavior (good and bad) of officers. Bud's journalistic skills show in his letters and fill his reports with a wealth of objective detail, as well as articulate reflections on his feelings about his…
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War Makes Men of Boys: A Soldier's World War II Hardcover - 2012
by Katherine I. Miller
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- Title War Makes Men of Boys: A Soldier's World War II
- Author Katherine I. Miller
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas A&M University Press
- Date 2012-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9781603447706 / 1603447709
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Life Writings
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects United States, World War, 1939-1945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012016467
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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