Doing Battle
Subtitle: The Making of a Skeptic
Edition: 1st Back Bay Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: January 7, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780316290616
Subjects: Literary studies: general; United States; English teachers; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Teachers; Military; General; Educators; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; Critics
First sentence: ALSACE, THE GERMANIZED eastern province of France with boarders on Germany and Switzerland, has a few large cities like Strasbourg, Nancy, and Colmar, but for the most part it is a land of farms and small towns, a poor place, where in 1944 and 1945 the inhabitants (most of dubious loyalty to the Allied cause) eked out a hard living in picturesque but primitive houses and barns, set in the midst of steaming manure piles.