Title We will not be strangers : Korean War letters between a M.A.S.H. surgeon and his wife / edited by Dorothy G. Horwitz ; foreword by James I. Matray.

Imprint

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department	951.904 HOR	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction	951.9042 W37 c.2	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	951.9042 H824W	Check Shelf

Description	xv, 277 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary	In the first war Americans didn't care to understand, a young M.A.S.H. surgeon finds himself in a dusty hospital tent on the Korean front. He and his new wife back in Manhattan exchange daily letters in which they express the timeless urgency of young love and a mutual contempt for war. Even though their day-to-day lives offer stark contrast, his spent in a blood-smeared apron and gloves, hers teaching high school Spanish and taking dance classes with Martha Graham, Mel and Dorothy are determined to chronicle these disparate experiences for one another so that, in their words, "we will not be strangers". By examining the minutiae, they avoid exploring the emptiness; by framing their lives in the normalcy of the 1950s, they avoid confronting the reality that their lives are not theirs alone to control. Attending separate Rosh Hashanah services, his in a mess tent and hers in a Park Avenue synagogue, they are reminded of the pain of their separation. In Mel's hands, Dorothy's letters comment on Sid Caesar, Edward R. Murrow, Joseph McCarthy, and Adlai Stevenson, while Dorothy holds anguished accounts of the carnage and uselessness of war. Now, more than forty-five years later, we are just beginning to understand Korea as a kind of dress rehearsal for another lengthy and unpopular conflict --- Vietnam. And Dorothy and Mel are just beginning to understand how their youthful experiences --- together, even if only by mail --- laid the groundwork for a mature and enduring union.
Subject	Horwitz, Dorothy G. (Dorothy Gotterer), 1928- -- Correspondence.
	Horwitz, Mel -- Correspondence.
	Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal narratives, American.
	Korean War, 1950-1953 -- United States.
	Military Medicine -- history.
	Military Personnel.
	Warfare -- history.
	Horwitz, Dorothy G. (Dorothy Gotterer), 1928- (OCoLC)fst00379680
	Horwitz, Mel. (OCoLC)fst00379681
	Korean War (1950-1953) (OCoLC)fst00988609
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Koreakrieg.
	Militärarzt.
	Geschichte 1952-1953.
	Briefsammlung.
	Erlebnisbericht.
Chronological Term	1950 - 1953
Genre/Form	Collected correspondence.
	Personal narratives -- American. (OCoLC)fst01424071
	Records and correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01423917
Added Author	Horwitz, Mel.
ISBN	0252022041 (alk. paper)
	9780252022043 (alk. paper)

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title We will not be strangers : Korean War letters between a M.A.S.H. surgeon and his wife / edited by Dorothy G. Horwitz ; foreword by James I. Matray.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings