Download or read book Looking for Heroes in Postwar France written by Neal Oxenhandler and published by Dartmouth. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Oxenhandler begins with his first Atlantic crossing, as a GI in World War II, then recounts his postwar return when traces of these writers were still intact. "I could walk down their streets, read their books, interview their friends." Now from the perspective of five decades he contemplates the contributions of each figure, both to intellectual history and to his own awakening.