Read the assigned readings from the references below. Which was emotionally moving? Why? What impact does these writings had on those non-combatants reading them? Did dispatches such as Pyle’s help those at home have a deeper understanding of combat, or did they simply hurt the war effort? Why?
• Stephen G. Fritz – Three Chapters from Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II
• Various Authors – Selected Letters from War Letters in the Second World War
• Eugene B. Sledge – Memoir Excerpts
• Louis Simpson
o “Carentan O Carentan”
o “The Battle”
• Letters from the Front
References:
http://www.texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/36division/archives/waskow/appenda.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_letters.html
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_4182.htm
http://www.feldpost-archiv.de/english/e7.html
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