Book contents
- Dear John
- Dear John
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction Picking Up the Pieces
- Chapter 1 The Marital and the Martial
- Chapter 2 Rules of Engagement, or “Write Right!”
- Chapter 3 Technologies of Proximity
- Chapter 4 “That’s All She Wrote”: Telling Dear John Stories
- Chapter 5 “The Modern Penelope”: Analyzing the Waiting Wife
- Chapter 6 Emotional Injury: Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 7 Severed Ties and Suicide
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2022
- Dear John
- Dear John
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction Picking Up the Pieces
- Chapter 1 The Marital and the Martial
- Chapter 2 Rules of Engagement, or “Write Right!”
- Chapter 3 Technologies of Proximity
- Chapter 4 “That’s All She Wrote”: Telling Dear John Stories
- Chapter 5 “The Modern Penelope”: Analyzing the Waiting Wife
- Chapter 6 Emotional Injury: Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 7 Severed Ties and Suicide
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
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- Dear JohnLove and Loyalty in Wartime America, pp. viii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022