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Unsaying the Commonplace
Although he was a man rooted in and engaged with nineteenth-century British culture, George MacDonald was no friend of Victorian convention. As this volume demonstrates, he was part of a tradition of counter-cultural writers, teachers, theologians, and reformers (including S. T. Coleridge, F. D. Maurice, A. J. Scott, and Charles Kingsley)-figures who stood up to injustice, fought for social change, opposed oppressive religious doctrines, and used imaginative fiction to transform individuals. These ten essays by leading MacDonald scholars such as Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, Trevor Hart, Elisabeth Jay, Kerry Dearborn-and including Stephen Prickett's final essay on MacDonald-explore how MacDonald participated in this counter-cultural tradition, critiquing commonplace biases and awakening individuals out of their moral and theological complacencies.
MacDonald Bards from Mediaeval Times
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Summary of Charles B. MacDonald's Company Commander
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was in Longuyon, France, with the 23rd Infantry Company, which had just arrived from the United States. I was in charge of the company, and I felt weak and ineffectual. I had fought my way ashore in Normandy on D-Day, battled to the top of Hill 192 to pave the way for the St. Lô breakout, and stormed the ring of pillboxes at Brest. #2 The column began to climb the hill. The air felt refreshingly cool on my hands, and the mist turned into a fine rain. The men scrambled to get their packs undone and shelter halves spread over their equipment. #3 I was awakened the next morning by someone rapping on my tent and shouting that it was five o’clock. It was dark, but the rain had stopped. We had barely enough time to heat a K-ration meal before battalion headquarters sent a runner to tell us to load on the trucks. #4 The relief of Company I was imminent, and I was excited. I had been waiting for this moment for a long time. It was the defense of a quiet sector, and I was excited to finally be in combat.
A Time for Trumpets
On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieveing what had been considered impossible -- total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army, 600,000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war. The brutal confrontation that ensued became known as the Battle of the Bulge, the greatest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army -- a triumph of American ingenuity and dedication over an egregious failure in strategic intelligence. A Time for Trumpets is the definitive account of this dramatic victory, told by one of America's most respected military historians, who was also an eyewitness: MacDonald commanded a rifle company in the Battle of the Bulge. His account of this unique battle is exhaustively researched, honestly recounted, and movingly authentic in its depiction of hand-to-hand combat. Mingling firsthand experience with the insights of a distinguished historian, MacDonald places this profound human drama unforgettably on the landscape of history.
