The Visitable Past : : A Wartime Memoir / / Leon Edel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Edel, Leon,
• MitwirkendeR: Auchincloss, Louis S.,; Edel, Marjorie,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Biography Monographs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- PART ONE TRANSFORMATIONS -- I AM DRAFTED -- FORT EUSTIS: SOLDIERING -- CAMP RITCHIE! MILITARY INTELLIGENCE -- CAMP SHARPE: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE -- PART TWO NORMANDY -- CONVOY AND LANDFALL -- OMAHA BEACH AND AN ORCHARD -- A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY -- LIBERATING BRITTANY -- PART THREE ENTERING PARIS -- A HERMITAGE AT MONTIGNY -- A PAUSE AT RAMBOUILLET -- A NIGHT IN THE PRÉFECTURE -- THE HÔTEL SCRIBE -- DE GAULLE TRIUMPHANT -- MUSINGS AND MEMORIES -- CARNIVAL WITHOUT MASKS -- CAPTAIN MILLER AND THE PLACE DE LA BOURSE -- LIANE AND HER COMPANIONS -- PART FOUR BOULEVARD WINTER -- IN THE RUE D'AGUESSEAU -- BEHIND THE LINES -- SEARCHING FOR SYLVIA BEACH -- EDITH'S LOVER IN OLD AGE: ENCOUNTERS WITH W. MORTON FULLERTON -- INTERIORS -- FROM MY NOTEBOOK -- A PARACHUTIST'S STORY -- THE PERFORMING ARTS -- HOSPITALS -- ROMANCES AND SHOW BIZ -- RÉVEILLON 1944 -- PART FIVE STRASBOURG -- A SUDDEN PANIC -- FAREWELLS -- A WINTER JOURNEY -- STRASBOURG BESIEGED -- STREET OF THE BLUE SKY -- BRIEFINGS -- STORY OF CLAUDE -- SIEGE NOTES -- CANNONADE -- A DIDACTIC MOMENT -- PART SIX INFORMAL FURLOUGH -- RETURN FROM THE FRONT -- THE AVENUE RAPP -- PLANS AND PROPOSALS -- AN INFORMAL FURLOUGH -- A SOLDIER'S TALE -- MISS NAUSICAA -- REVERIE IN THE AVENUE MONTAIGNE -- TERMINATIONS