Blueberry Pie

About the Book

Otis Pease, World War II veteran and retired history professor, offers his own blend of World War II memoir plus analysis of theories about what motivated soldiers to fight the war. The book includes the extensive diary Pease kept, from basic training to fighting from a foxhole on the front lines in Germany, to recovery from wounds (including trench foot) in a military hospital in England, then reassignment to an Air Force B-17 Bomber Base, and finally, his wait for one of the Victory ships to bring him home to pursue his college education courtesy of the GI Bill.

About the Author

Otis Pease is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Washington. He has served on the faculties of the University of Texas and of Stanford University, as a Vice President of the American Historical Association and as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. He has authored several works on American cultural and political history, has helped train two dozen doctoral students, and has offered courses in modern U.S history, aimed at introducing generations of students to the wars that had become central to the experience of their parents and grandparents. These courses he developed in part because he survived his own experience of war ?whole? enough not only to talk about it, but to explore with the next generation the impact of war on the past half-century of history.

Otis Pease and his wife Donna McCampbell live in Seattle, Washington.