261 pages. Illustrated. Publication date June 6, 2004
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR D-DAY AND BEYOND
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CONTENTS (with datelines)
PROLOGUE (Norwich, Vermont, 2004) 11
PART I: WAR
1. Omaha Beach, 1944 17
2. Malmedy, 1944 42
3. Buchenwald, 1945 55
PART II: BETWEEN EAST & WEST
4. Saint Sergius (Paris, 1948) 87
5. The Air Bridge (Berlin, 1948-49) 105
6. Argonauts (Moscow, 1978) 121
PART III: RUSSIA
7. Bridges for Peace (Leningrad & Moscow, 1983) 139
8. Open Christianity (Leningrad, 1990) 161
PART IV: DISCOVERY
9. The Spirit as Speech (St. Petersburg & Moscow, 1991-92) 183
10. Reconciling Science & Religion (Moscow, Bergamo, 1993-94) 203
11. The Cross of Reality (Moscow,1995) 217
EPILOGUE (Moscow, Norwich & New York, 2000-2004) 228
Acknowledgments 243
Suggestions for Further Reading 245
Selected Bibliography 246
Index 249
In D-Day and Beyond Clint Gardner tells how he was wounded on Omaha Beach and lay there twenty-three hours before getting medical help. He had landed on Omaha Dog Green, the "worst" of the invasion beaches, and the one shown in the film Saving Private Ryan. In flashbacks he recalls his freshman year at Dartmouth and why he volunteered for the army. Wounded again in the Battle of the Bulge, as he recovers in a Belgian farmhouse, he continues his flashbacks.
Chapter 3 describes how he became commander of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp, and how that experience set him on a journey of spiritual exploration—in an effort to understand what we can say about God after two world wars and the Holocaust.
Meeting the 4,000 Russian prisoners at Buchenwald, and learning of Stalin’s similar camps, he decides to make Russia’s problems his own.
Years later, as the founder of "US-USSR Bridges for Peace," he finds himself in the vanguard of a movement for "citizen diplomacy." In 1987 he's invited to the Kremlin, where he meets Gorbachev and Sakharov.
In the closing chapters of the book, Clint describes how his spiritual and philosophical explorations have led him to discover what he calls “a down-to-earth spirituality,” one that offers a new approach to reconciling science and religion.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR D-DAY AND BEYOND
“Fascinating, moving and important. “— HAROLD BERMAN, Emory University
“This is an important work. It should be widely read and pondered.”
— FRED BERTHOLD, JR, Dartmouth College
“A unique book. Clint Gardner conveys a compelling vision of how ‘dialogical thinking’ can contribute to the urgent dialogue among civilizations.”—VITALY MAKHLIN, Moscow State Pedagogical University
"I enjoyed this book, and found its combination of vivid personal memoir with serious philosophical reflection on time and dialogue to be quite effective."— GEORGE L. KLINE, Bryn Mawr College
"The work of a lifetime, Clint Gardner's memoir traces an intellectual journey that includes portraits of many mentors, earnest religious inquiry, and a serious commitment to building bridges for peace."— AVERY POST, Former National President, United Church of Christ
"Clint Gardner writes in a very lively diary style..... So many remarkable events and meetings came his way. I am a witness to the fact that his mentor, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, with all his scholarship and original thought, made doers out of his students, people who take on the world."— FREYA VON MOLTKE
Morning Notes - A selection of further notes, as promised in the book.
[More appendices available by end July 2004; they will include source notes.]