War & Reflection [SIGNED]

Benjamin, Walter W.

ISBN 10: 0964043912 / ISBN 13: 9780964043916

Published by Red Oak Press, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

sm 8vo, 256 pp, inc 10 pp. for "Notes," otherwise blank. Pictorial paper wraps with green and grey dominate colors. Book is INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED on title page.Tips of pp 249-256 ("Notes" section) are dog-earred, 1/4 in. This is the only defect. BOOK IS UNREAD. After serving in the U.S. Navy Air Corps in WWII, the author taught theology and ethics at Hamline University. This book is his reflections, inclusive of those experiences as a soldier and a thinker.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: War & Reflection [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Red Oak Press, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964043912
• ISBN 13: 9780964043916
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The discovery of almost 250 letters written to his parents while in the Navy Air Corps led Walter Benjamin to interpret his military service during World War II for the present generation.

Review

The discovery of almost 250 letters written to his parents wile in the Navy Air Corps led Walter Benjamin to interpret his military service during World War II for the present generation. A half-century later, after a career of scholarship and teaching theology and ethics at Hamline University, Professor Benjamin reflects on such topics as pacificism, the enduring allure of war, universal military service, the military as family, President Truman, Hiroshima, and more. As Professor Benjamin writes in his concluding chapter, "In spite of the passing of the Cold War era, the world is more and more a tangle of scourges. Tribal, ethnic, and ideological enmities are exploding across the continents like the naval salvos off the Normandy beaches during D-Day. The notion that peace is natural and war an aberration has led to a failure in peacetime to consider the possibility of another war. " Rarely will the reader encounter such insightful writing on the realities and implications of military service, military conflict, the yearning for peace and the allurements of war. -- Midwest Book Review