Historical Biography - United States - 20th Century, World War II - War Narratives, World War II - Personal Narratives, Journalists - News & Media Biography, World War II Narratives
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Overview
In his first book of memoirs, BEING A BOY, we met a young Paxton Davis growing up in North Carolina during the Depression. A BOY'S WAR continues his story as he leaves for college and his "Rat Year" at the Virginia Military Institute. He was going not to prepare for war, but simply to continue a family tradition.But this was wartime, and soon the army beckoned. Picked for the medics, Davis describes his odyssey through disease and death. He relates his experiences and shows us how luck, fatigue and fear played leading roles in determining soldier's fates during a war fought mostly by boys, many of whom learned far more than they cared to about life and death before reaching voting age.
Editorials
Library Journal
Two years ago Paxton Davis gave us Being a Boy ( LJ 7/1/88), a personal recollection of his adolescence in North Carolina during the 1920s and 1930s. Now he's back, and he takes us through his World War II experience, from being drafted out of the Virginia Military Institute, to training as a medic in Texas, to fighting in the jungles of Burma. When his furlough finally comes, he is just turning 21. Like the memoir of his formative years, his war story is full of a certain naive honesty and the ability to look at his own innocence. Recommended for popular reading collections.-- Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., Ala.Book Details
Published
August 1, 1994
Publisher
John F. Blair Publisher
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780895870797