God in the Foxhole
God in the Foxhole: Inspiring True Stories of Miracles on the Battlefield Charles W. Sasser,
Publisher: Threshold Editions
ISBN: 1416541373
DDC: 242
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-11-11
Summary:
From the battlefields of the American Civil War through World Wars I
and II, from Korea and Vietnam to the front lines in Iraq and
Afghanistan, soldiers of all faiths have struggled for understanding
and called on a higher power when faced with the realities of combat.
God in the Foxhole is a stunning collection of true personal accounts
from generations of American soldiers whose faith, in the words of
author Charles W. Sasser, "has been born, reborn, tested, sustained,
verified, or transformed under fire."A renowned master of combat
journalism and a former Green Beret, Sasser has gathered an immensely
moving collection of war stories like no other -- stories of
spirituality, conversion, and miracles from the battlefield. Be they
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or atheist, churched since childhood or
touched by the divine for the first time, here are the riveting
experiences of army privates, bomber pilots, navy lieutenants,
marines, prisoners of war, medics, nurses, chaplains, and others who,
under desperate circumstances and with every reason to fear for their
lives, found unknown strength, courage, and heroism through their
remarkable faith.These inspiring accounts transcend the explainable
to become stunning portraits of survival and belief: the angelic
vision that brought inner peace to an exhausted helicopter door
gunner in Vietnam...the makeshift full-immersion baptisms of eleven
soldiers on Palm Sunday in Iraq, 2004...two enemies -- a Nazi priest
and an American G.I. -- who served Communion Mass in a Belgian
sanctuary in 1944...the prescient letter from a Civil War army major
to his beloved wife, one week before his death at Bull Run...the
21st-century toddler with a jaw-dropping spiritual connection to a
war hero of Iwo Jima...and dozens more.A war chronicle like no other,
God in the Foxhole affirms, for military buffs and readers from all
walks of life, the power of faith in the face of adversity.
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