Joseph E. Garland - Unknown Soldiers

Joseph E. Garland, World War II veteran of the storied 45th offers a startlingly personal collective memoir of his platoon's experiences during the Italian Campaign, from Sicily, to Anzio to Dachau. Diagnosed with PTSD decades after returning stateside, Garland and many of his platoonmates never "came home" from the war. This book, what one reviewer called Garland's "masterpiece," breaks the circle of silence that too frequently surrounds soldiers trying to re-adapt to peacetime life. This video offers some of the story behind the story of this book, and the reason for writing it.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• WWII
• Allied
• Anzio
• 45th Infantry Division
• Dachau
• Battle of the Bulge
• PTSD

[seets69]

I was fortunate enough to get a free copy of the book and can't wait to start reading it -- on Veterans Day.

[LinXiaoChaun]

The circle of silence must be broken: "Unless we who have been through these wars can bring ourselves to talk about it, we must conclude that we will be doing this for generation after generation..."

Amen