SOLDIERING FOR FREEDOM: A GI’ S ACCOUNT OF WORLD WAR II

Book ID/图书代码： 13590014B73470

English Summary/英文概要： Only a small percentage of the sixteen million servicemen called up during World War II saw front-line service. For the others, war involved training, reinforcement depots, tedious assignments, and lots of waiting. Herman J. Obermayer was one of those who earned a combat star without ever coming close enough to a battlefront to hear or see booming guns. Nonetheless, his letters then, and his reflection on them now, reveal important aspects of the war and the wartime world. From school, from basic training, and later from Europe, Obermayer wrote home with vivid descriptions of life in the Army. Reflective and observant, he recorded his views of both French and German reactions to the American occupation force, race relations among enlisted men, and the problems of supplying the troops as they crossed Europe after the Normandy invasion. One of the few people alive today to have seen Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and other leaders of Third Reich, Obermayer wrote compellingly about the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg, describing Goering’s leadership qualities when stripped of the symbols of rank. A Jew himself, Obermayer explained his reactions at the trials when he witnessed the first documentary confirmation that six million Jews had been killed in the Holocaust. He knew and wrote about the official U.S. Army hangman at Nuremberg. Readers will find in Obermayer’s letters and connective commentary a welcome tendency to look for what went on beneath the surface, a challenging view of how his experiences cast light on today’s politics and issues, and an engrossingly human story of war behind the lines.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一千六百万军人中只有一小部分见识了第二次世界大战期间的前线战况。对于其他人来说，只有战争相关的训练，强化军需库，繁琐的任务和大量的等待。赫尔曼•J•奥伯迈耶是那些赢得了战斗之星的荣誉却从来就没有足够接近前线去听到或看到砰砰枪声的士兵中的一员。尽管如此，他后来的信和现在他对战争的反映揭示了战争和战时世界的重要方面。学校，基本的培训以及后来到欧洲，奥伯迈耶写信回家生动描述了军中的生活。这些信是深思熟虑和观察敏锐的，记录了他对法国和德国对抗美国占领军士兵，士兵中的种族关系，以及他们诺曼底登陆后越过欧洲时部队的供给问题的看法。奥伯迈耶是极少数看到过赫尔曼•戈林，鲁道夫•赫斯和第三帝国其他领袖而现在还健在的人，他扣人心弦的描写了在纽伦堡对纳粹的审判，描述了当被剥夺军衔等级时戈林的领导能力。作为一个犹太人，奥伯迈耶描述了当他亲眼目睹过六百万犹太人在大屠杀中丧生的第一现场后，他在审判时的反应。他了解并描写了美国军方在纽伦堡的刽子手。读者将在奥伯迈耶的信和相关的传记中发现一个受欢迎的趋向去寻找隐藏在表面之下的东西，对于他的经历如何投射出如今的政治和时事，这是一个具有挑战性的观点，这也是一个扣人心弦的前线后面的军人的故事。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：这本优秀的二战回忆录借鉴了大量来自奥伯迈耶战时书信的材料。奥伯迈耶出生于费城一个富裕的犹太家庭，于1943年入伍并直接加入陆军专业训练计划。当计划被废除后，他被训练成一个训练有素的空降战斗工程师，然后被重新分配去保养横跨法国的汽油管道，保护它们免受法国人的偷窃和破坏——他的信件中对此有几个尖锐的评论。他在一个急速缩减的法官办公司结束了军事生涯，同时见证了赫尔曼戈林在纽伦堡的审判，并留下了深刻的印象。在简要出席日内瓦大学后，在在军队等级，糟糕的住宿，不称职的官员和拿破仑著名的第五要素——泥中存活下来后，他作为一个记者和编辑航行回家。罗兰•格林版权 ©美国图书馆协会。

This superior World War II memoir consists largely of material from Obermayer’s wartime letters. Obermayer, from an affluent Jewish family in Philadelphia, was drafted in 1943 and sent straight into the Army Specialized Training Program. When the program was abolished, he was trained as an airborne combat engineer, then reassigned to the job of maintaining the gasoline pipelines laid across France and protecting them from pilferage and outright sabotage--by the French, for whom his letters have more than a few scathing remarks. He ended his military career in a rapidly shrinking judge advocate general’s office, in time to see and be impressed by Hermann Goring at the Nuremburg trials. After briefly attending the University of Geneva, he sailed home to a postwar career as a journalist and editor, after having survived the army hierarchy, lousy accommodations, incompetent officers, and Napoleon’s famous fifth element, mud. Roland Green Copyright © American Library Association.

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