THROUGH THE HITLER LINE: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain (Life Writing) - Hardcover

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Laurence Wilmot's Second World War memoir is a rare story: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute noncombatant. It is paradoxes such as this that make Wilmot's book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest dressed as a warrior, a man of peace in battle fatigues. He is an incongruous figure in a theatre of war, always vigilant for opportunities to partake of silent meditation and prayer, never failing to lose sight of the larger moral issues of the war. His compassion is boundless, his sensitivity acute, and one senses his mounting emotional and spiritual enervation as the death toll of his fellow serving men steadily mounts. At the centre of the book is Wilmot's witness of the murderous battle at Arielli.

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