Private Purkey's private peace
By: by H. I. Phillips; illustrations by Sergeant Leonard Sansone.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Genres: Caricatures and cartoons.
Description: by H. I. Phillips; illustrations by Sergeant Leonard Sansone.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: I. In the Postwar World ... Or Nearly So 3; title: II. Swing Low, Sweet Armistice 10; title: III. Private Purkey and His Buddies Discuss Some Immediate Yens 19; title: IV. Some Correspondence between Oscar and Harriet 27; title: V. Dad and Mom Are Heard From, Too 32; title: VI. Peace Is Hell A Tokyo Weather Forecast 35; title: VII. Some Correspondence Revealing Mutual Impatience 38; title: VIII. Pfc Purkey Writes a Letter to His Son 51; title: IX. An Interchange of Letters between Oscar and Harriet 54; title: X. Discord in the Dovecotes 57; title: XI. The Outfit Gets More Complete Data from the GI Blueprint 62; title: XII. Purkey and Hollis Talk It Over 68; title: XIII. A Visit to the Chez Internationale 71; title: XIV. Crashing a Peace Parley 77; title: XV. The GI Blueprint for Peace 89; title: XVI. The Commandos Land in the Mill, the Headlines, and the Radio Sets 96; title: XVII. The News Reaches the Firesides Back Home 101; title: XVIII. General Hell-Roaring Scribbey Tries to Get at the Bottom of It 105; title: XIX. The Peace Parley Kibitzers Find Themselves Famous 111; title: XX. Freedom at Last 115; title: XXI. Transfer to England—An Amazing Summons 121; title: XXII. Arrival at La Guardia Airport 124; title: XXIII. Alone at Last. Peace, Did You Say? 130; title: Illustrations; title: "I'm having breakfast in bed today, Hudson! If Eisenhower phones tell him I do not wish to be disturbed." 13; title: "You got no idea, Harriet, how it will seem to me to have a straw hat on again and dry drawers." 29; title: "Nobody should be a peace delergate who ain't never swum a river under fire, spent two weeks adrift in a rubber boat, ate a raw albatross, or cooked a meal in his own hat." 46; title: "Peace is a fightin' word, I guess. Once an MP always an MP." 86; title: "Article 96? That's the one coverin' larceny, perjury, dueling, and rape, ain't it?" 108; title: "...this full-blooded member of the Seneca Indian tribe ..." 127; title: <div>Digitized by Google.</div>