Read From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard

From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard

Richard Beard

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Description:The saga of China, Burma, India-World War IIs forgotten theater-is as heroic as it is seldom told. CBI ground troops were charged with the Herculean task of carving a road from India to China through humid jungles where disease was as great a hazard as the Japanese, and pilots who flew the Hump, the treacherous flight route over the Himalayas, braved violent monsoon rains, deadly wind shifts, and mountainsides that suddenly loomed from the clouds. Richard Beard, an Army psychologist assigned to the 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta, dealt daily with emotional trauma. While American and British soldiers hacked their way through dense tropical forests to build the supply route, Beard immersed himself in the internal jungles of those he treated. A pillar to the men he served, Beard was an astute listener and observer, pleased to be playing his part. But his own pillar was his wife, Reva, teaching school half a world away in Findlay, Ohio. In daily letters to Reva, he poured out not only his observations of life in India but also his own longing and passions, and the unfolding drama of war, in painfully exquisite detail tempered with tenderness and humor. Revas return letters are filled with news of the home front and stories of her young students, but through them all courses a longing for Richards safe return. In these letters the couples devotion to each other in the face of separation and their willingness to see the war through to its end demonstrate once again the dedication of the World War II generation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard. To get started finding From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 352

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Release: 2008

ISBN: 1281093211

Description: The saga of China, Burma, India-World War IIs forgotten theater-is as heroic as it is seldom told. CBI ground troops were charged with the Herculean task of carving a road from India to China through humid jungles where disease was as great a hazard as the Japanese, and pilots who flew the Hump, the treacherous flight route over the Himalayas, braved violent monsoon rains, deadly wind shifts, and mountainsides that suddenly loomed from the clouds. Richard Beard, an Army psychologist assigned to the 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta, dealt daily with emotional trauma. While American and British soldiers hacked their way through dense tropical forests to build the supply route, Beard immersed himself in the internal jungles of those he treated. A pillar to the men he served, Beard was an astute listener and observer, pleased to be playing his part. But his own pillar was his wife, Reva, teaching school half a world away in Findlay, Ohio. In daily letters to Reva, he poured out not only his observations of life in India but also his own longing and passions, and the unfolding drama of war, in painfully exquisite detail tempered with tenderness and humor. Revas return letters are filled with news of the home front and stories of her young students, but through them all courses a longing for Richards safe return. In these letters the couples devotion to each other in the face of separation and their willingness to see the war through to its end demonstrate once again the dedication of the World War II generation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard. To get started finding From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard

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