title: Above the Thunder: Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II
author:  Raymond C. Kerns 
description: "If you're looking for macho, fighting-man talk, you've picked up the wrong book.... This is just an honest narration of some of my experiences... during my service in the U.S. Army between 1940 and 1945." -- Raymond C. Kerns
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  TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLES
  
   **TAKE ARMS AGAINST** **A** **SEA** **OF** **TROUBLES**
  
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   _The_ POWER _of the_ READER’S MIND _over a_ UNIVERSE _of_ DEATH
  
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   **HAROLD BLOOM**
  
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  Published with support from the Fund established in memory of Oliver Baty
  Cunningham, a distinguished graduate of the Class of 1917, Yale College,
  Captain, 15th United States Field Artillery, born in Chicago September 17,
  1894, and killed while on active duty near Thiaucourt, France, September 17,
  1918, the twenty-fourth anniversary of his birth.
  
  Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Philip
  Hamilton McMillan of the Class of 1894, Yale College.
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Harold Bloom.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations,
  in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S.
  Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the pub