The General Said "Nuts": Firsthand Accounts of Wartime Heroism, Horror, and Humor - Paperback

by Marjorie K. Walraven (Editor), Bill Walraven (Author)

As the veterans of World War II pass from our presence, Americans feel a need to remember their pain and sacrifices. This book, written by a newspaper columnist himself a Navy veteran of that war, is a collection of interviews and personal essays that bring home the experiences of the men who served our nation in those historic times: *Sailors asleep on a quiet Sunday morning shocked into the realization that "THIS IS NO DRILL"; *POWs who survived unspeakable horrors on the Bataan Death March or the frozen fields of Germany; Heroic pilots who braved casualty rates that were "more than 100 percent"; and Men who fought another kind of war, the war of boredom, with patience, tenacity, and humor.

Author Biography

Bill Walraven is a Texas writer who served on a PT Boat in the Pacific during World War II. After the war he earned a B.A. degree in history from Texas A&I, now Texas A&M-Kingsville, and studied professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. He worked as a reporter and daily columnist for the Corpus Christi, Texas, Caller-Times, retiring in 1989. He is the author of ten books, specializing in humor and regional history. His most successful work is Real Texans Don't Drink Scotch in Their Dr Pepper, which has sold approximately 35,000 copies. One of his regional histories, The Magnificent Barbarians, written with his wife Marjorie, proves the collaboration of U.S. Army troops in the Battle of San Jacinto, where Texas won its independence from Mexico in 1836.