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 Richard Lung - War From War.
A happy childhood in the Paradise of the Banat. A coming of age, thrown out of the services company, to fight in the Hell of the Russian Front. Purgatory... Lire la suite
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Résumé

A happy childhood in the Paradise of the Banat. A coming of age, thrown out of the services company, to fight in the Hell of the Russian Front. Purgatory in a foreign land. For, war does not end when the immediate fighting is over and everyone still (more or less) alive has left the battle-field. A man may be brought down instantly by his injuries or, just as inevitably, near the end of a long life.
There are also lasting injuries invisible and incalculable in their untoward effects. My father was descended from German emigrants (to escape the Franco-German wars) settling in Austro-Hungary, caught-up in the Great War, and annexed to Romania. He was conscripted in the second world war, and captured, accepting the offer of work in England, where he was, at first, interned and later naturalised.
An artisan by trade, a sportsman by inclination, fighting a long rear-guard action against his war injury. My fathers story is followed by a kaleidoscope of after-thoughts. I outline answers to the problem of turning war into peace. A supplement includes a long letter in German by a prisoner of war comrade, on returning home.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    26/12/2017
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-1-370-19118-5
  • EAN
    9781370191185
  • Format
    ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
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Biographie de Richard Lung

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them. While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims. Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy.
This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend..... Authors have played a big part in my life. Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.
I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books. I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!2014, slightly modified 2022.

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