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Acknowledgments Many people helped me with this book, including Donald Anderson, Louel Gibbons, Laurence Goldstein, Fred Hobson, Jerome Klinkowitz, John Northrop, Michael Robbins, Merinda Simmons, Bill Ulmer, Dan Waterman, and Heather White. I hope the dedication page acknowledges a familial history of love and support from the best brother and sister a person could possibly have. Closer to home, I further wish to thank, as ever, the wonderful Beidler women, Ellen and Kat. Acknowledgment is made for materials published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Military History Magazine, and War, Literature & the Arts. The Victory Album ...

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