Contents

 
Volume 16:1&2
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From the Editor’s Desk

 

 

Donald Anderson

 

vi

Memoir

 

 

WJ ‘Jim’ Hunter

From Coastal Command to Captivity,
introduced by Allan Hunter

1

Major Richard C. Sater Notes from a Journal: Afghanistan, 11 Sept 2003-7 Apr 2004 151

Fiction

 

 

Ron Sandvik

Falling With Style: The 17th Draft of a Videoplay to be Produced
Upon My Death and Played For My Children

42

Gary Mills

from At All Costs

56

Wayne Karlin

The American Reader

104

Tim Parrish

Orderly

119

Terry P. Rizzuti

Willis

187

Lucy Bucknell

The Kite

190

Melinda Braun The Cost of Living 192

Pam Ullman

No Safe Distance

211

Poetry

 

 

Dale Ritterbusch

Three Poems

35

Dana Gioia

Four Poems

51

Mary Elizabeth Lang Two Poems 79
Kyle Torke Two Poems 83
Thomas Dukes Writing Daddy 84
Suzanne R. Thurman Point of View 145
Marlene Hanna Quicksand 148
Paula Panzarella Desert Rose 149
Jeffrey C. Alfier Paleo Warrior at Blackwater Draw 246
Rawdon Tomlinson Two Poems 247
Shelley W. Moore The First Woman Marine 250

Jim Simmerman

At the Peace March 252

Critical Essay

 

 

Jackson A. Niday, II A Rhetoric of Trauma in 9-11 Stories:
A Critical Reading of Ulrich Baer’s 110 Stories
59
Edward Gillin Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Old Soldier of
The Country of the Pointed Firs
86
Dorlea Rikard Patriotism, Propaganda, Parody, and Protest:
The Music of Three American Wars
129
Marcia Phillips McGowan “A Nearer Approach to the Truth”:
Mary Borden’s Journey Down a Blind Alley
198
Casey Clabough Confronting Traumatic Anxiety:
William Manchester’s Goodbye, Darkness
221

Mark Dollar
 

Ghost Imagery in the War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

235

Personal Essay

 

 

Jeff Loeb

Brisance 111

Commentary

 

 

W.D. Ehrhart Carrying the Ghost of Ray Catina 40
Glenn Leinbach Ed Wood: Wounds, War, and Friendship 255

Lori A. Davis Perry 

Women at the Front: American Nurses

261

Recall Roster

 

 

Dana Gioia

This Man’s Army by John Allan Wyeth, Jr.

269

Editor’s Choice

 

 

Lori A. Davis Perry 

Brave Enemies by Robert Morgan

275

Reviews    

Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry

281

Honoring Sergeant Carter: Redeeming a Black World War II Hero’s Legacy

286

The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film

288

Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film

292

Billy Mitchell

294

Crossing the Sauer: A Memoir of World War II

296

Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944-April 1945

297

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front

300

Love After War: Contemporary Fiction from Viet Nam

303

Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers, 1899-1914

306

Crossing the River: Short Fiction by Nguyen Huy Thiep

308