They Say There Was a War.They Say There Was a War Richard David Wissolik, David Wilmes, Eric Greisinger, John DePaul Saint Vincent College History Founded in 1846 by Boniface Wimmer as a men's college, in 1983 it became coeducational. In 2004 the college hired a professional lobbyist and, later that year, two paragraphs were tucked into federal appropriation bills with the help of Representative John P. 300 Fraser Purchase Road, Latrobe, PA 15650 1885851510 $30.00 www.stvincent.edu/napp11 They Say There Was a War collects fifty detailed, personal narratives of men and women who served in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. military in all different services and theaters during World War II. The individuals tapped to tell their stories in their own words range from a survivor of the Bataan Death March Bataan Death March (April 1942) Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi (101 km) to a to one who worked on building the Thai-Burma Railway. From bloody battles to harrowing conditions of poor hygiene to the threat of starvation starvation, condition in which deprivation of food has forced the body to feed on itself. Causes are famine, fasting, malnutrition, or abnormalities of the mucosal lining of the digestive system. and much more, They Say There Was a War gives a vivid impression of precisely what everyday life on all aspects of the battle front was like. Printed on high quality paper and illustrated with occasional black-and-white photographs, They Say There Was a War is an utterly invaluable primary source emphatically em·phat·ic adj. 1. Expressed or performed with emphasis: responded with an emphatic "no." 2. Forceful and definite in expression or action. 3. recommended for college and library collections. |
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