Answering Their Country's Call : Marylanders in World War II
81: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Text in English. 350 pp. Inscription on the front free endpaper. Edge wear on dust jacket.
The inscription on Baltimore's recently razed Memorial Stadium reflects the gratitude we all feel toward the 288,000 Maryland men and women who served their country during the Second World War, especially the 6,454 Marylanders who didn't come home. But while their collective contribution to the cause of world freedom will always be remembered, their individual experiences are being forgotten, their tales of wartime still untold. In Answering Their Country's Call, Michael H. Rogers presents the stories of 31 Marylanders, told in their Own words, each shedding new light on the large role played by a small state in the great struggle against tyranny. Among the ordinary citizens thrust into extraordinary circumstances featured in this book are Ensign Calvin S. George Jr., a Naval Academy graduate who was captured by the Japanese in Manila in 1942 and survived four years of brutal conditions in POW camps and aboard the infamous Japanese "Hell Ships'", Pfc. James A. Kane, a medic in the 92nd Division- the famous "Buffalo Division"- who lost his right leg trying to reach a wounded soldier in Italy and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star; Dorothy E. Steinbis Davis, R.N., Near Fine / Very Good. Item #3568
ISBN: 9780801871269
Price: $40.00