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  title info:
    title: Through the Hitler line
    sub title: memoirs of an infantry chaplain
  name:
    name part: Wilmot, Laurence F.
    name part: 1907-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (148 pages) :) : illustrations, maps, portraits, digital fil
  abstract: Laurence Wilmot's Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot's book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest dressed as a warrior, a man of peace in battle fatigues. He is an incongruous figure in a theatre of war, always vigilant for opportunities to partake of silent meditation and prayer, never failing to lose sight of the larger moral issues of the war. His compassion is boundless, his sensitivity acute, and one senses his mounting emotional and spiritual enervation as the death toll of his fellow serving men steadily mounts. At the centre of the book is Wilmot's witness of the murderous battle at the Arielli. Wilmot's compassion for the fighting men compels him to leave the safety of his ministry and join them at the front, at great personal risk. There, as an unarmed stretcher-bearer, he is kept busy transporting the wounded under enemy fire. In this crucible of battle we see the qualities that attest to Wilmot's character and contribute to his memoir's importance: an indefatigable devotion to his duty to save and comfort the wounded, and a resolve to resist despair in spite of the terrible carnage all around. In short, a singular triumph of the decency of one man in the midst of total war.
  table of contents: Treading Cautiously into the Unknown -- Ministry on the Arielli Front -- Taking Up God's Armour -- Breaking the Hitler Line -- A Tourist in Wartime -- Preparing for the Attack -- Tragedy at Foglia River -- Fierce Fighting and Close Calls -- A Time of Stress and a Moment of Rest -- Roman Holiday, Russi Road -- Prayers for the Fallen -- Liberating Holland -- The Guns Fall Silent.
  note: Laurence F. Wilmot.
  note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Canada.
      name part: Canadian Army.
      name part: West Nova Scotia Regiment
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Canada.
      name part: Canadian Army
    topic: Chaplains
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    genre: Personal narratives, Canadian
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    topic: Military chaplains
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Biography
  classification: D810.C36 C39 2003
  classification: 940.54/78/092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Life writing series
  identifier: 9780889205543
  identifier: 9780889204263
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 120411
    record change date: 20260608210029.3
    record identifier: in00003396870