A01=Morton D. Elevitch
Author_Morton D. Elevitch
Category=DNB
Category=DND
Category=NHB
Category=NHD
Category=NHWL
Category=NHWR7
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780809325276
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A chronicle of war infused with uncommon cheer, this is a young man's education in life and death, and a narrative of war told completely in letters. During World War II, thousands of high school graduates were drafted into the army to be trained in colleges as engineers or other technicians but instead were assigned to fighting units and joined the great assualt in Europe after D Day. One of those combat infantrymen was Morton Elevitch from Duluth, Minnesota. Elevitch's cartoons, drawings and extremely unconventional letters home - rescued from box-in-the-basement oblivion after a more than 50-year dormancy - recover the story of one rerouted GI. The words and letters of "Privitch Elevate" offer the immediacy of the events as they unfolded. The young Elevitch escorts readers through his basic training and departure for Europe, duty in Brittany with the 94th Division and departure for Germany, combat under Patton's command, wounding by mortar fragments, convalescence in England and his return to France with the Signal Corps to guard prisoners and await demobilization.
But along with these letters are the stories of his relationships with his parents, brother, the men of his company and even the prisoners of war.
M. D. Elevitch is the author of two novels (Grips; or, Efforts to Revive the Host and Americans at Home) and a book of short fiction (Green Eternal Go, to be expanded as Single for Tonight). He edited and published First Person, a journal of travel, memoirs, and humor in the 1960s and has contributed fiction and criticism to many literary reviews, anthologies, and newspapers. Dog Tags Yapping is his first extended work on his experiences as a GI in World War II where he was awarded the Purple Heart and bronze oak-leaf cluster, and the coveted Combat Infantryman's Badge. He resides in Rockland County, New York.
