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My Father S War
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Author : Adriaan van Dis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2004
My Father S War written by Adriaan van Dis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in his family and in the world, and endure the brutal military training his father puts him through, and wonders about the hardships the family has suffered. Years later, the son begins a quest into his family's past and the origins of his father's brutality.
My Father S War
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Author : Adriaan van Dis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
My Father S War written by Adriaan van Dis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Dutch categories.
Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in the midst of his family. Living in isolation among the dunes of coastal Holland, he looks on as his half-caste half-sisters are mocked for their 'blue skin', endures the bizarre and brutal military training his father puts him through, and wonders about the wartime hardships his family suffered but never discusses. Years later, the middle-aged son begins a quest into his family's past in Indonesia, and the origins of his father's strange mix of charm and cruelty. Despite his sisters' denials and his mother's evasiveness, details surface about the incredible endurance of his father, one of the few survivors of torture in the camp. Returning always to the Dutch coast where he spent his childhood, the man comes to a final acceptance of his father and a new understanding of their relationship.
My Father S Wars
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Author : Alisse Waterston
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-11
My Father S Wars written by Alisse Waterston and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-11 with Social Science categories.
* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 * My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.
My Father S War
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Author : Charley Valera
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2016-12-15
My Father S War written by Charley Valera and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charley Valeras own father had spent almost 4 years fighting during WWII and lived out the rest of his life without a story to tell. To share stories that hadnt been discussed in decades, Valera conducted heartfelt interviews using video to pen and chronicled them in a way to bring the reader into the battlefield, aircraft or destroyer. A combination between The Greatest Generation and Saving Private Ryan.
Finding My Father S War
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Author : Walter J. Eldredge
language : en
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-06
Finding My Father S War written by Walter J. Eldredge and has been published by PageFree Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here, for the first time is the story of the 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, told in the pictures and memories of the veterans themselves with the son of a mortar company commander as their voice.
Our Fathers War
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Author : Tom Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Our Fathers War written by Tom Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Family & Relationships categories.
The author's relations with his father, a veteran of World War II, were terrible. The soldier came back from the war to a young son he'd barely met and proceeded to bully and browbeat him--for his own good. In the course of puzzling out almost fifty years of intermittent conflict, the author came to understand that their problems were not simply personal, they were generational--and widely shared. And so to write this book, which tells the secret history of World War II and its echoes down the generations, he has uncovered nine other dramatic and telling father-son tales.
At War With My Father
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Author : Lynette Ramsay Silver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-31
At War With My Father written by Lynette Ramsay Silver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with categories.
It is June 2008, and I am on a hillside overlooking the NSW country town of Boorowa. It is a long time since I felt any need to visit the cemetery, but today I have come to talk to my father. My research on the notorious BurmaThai railway, where he was a POW has brought me to this moment. For the past 13 years I have been following my fathers war time footsteps as a way of understanding him as a person and intern understanding myself. Sergeant Fred Howe struggles to stay conscious. A hundred needles from the barbed wire securing him to the tree pierce his bony body; cigarette burns inflicted by his tormentors sting his bare skin; the hot tropical sun escalates his thirst and hunger tears at his gut. In his lucid moments, Fred ponders his decision to enlist. After all, he was 34 years of age at the time, a married man and father to four children. He wonders how much longer he can last, both physically and mentally. Will the war soon be over and those who have made it thus far be on their way home, or will it drag on until not a single one of them survives? As a young girl I had no understanding of the war. All Dad had ever told me was that, during the fighting his mates had been shot and killed on either side of him. At the age I was then, this didnt mean much to me. I just didnt understand. I never asked any questions, so I received no answers answers that I would come to crave. I now realise why, for so much of my life, I have been at war with my father, literally and by following in his footsteps. I am also finally understanding the degree to which his experiences impacted our relationship. Fred Howe was a prisoner of war for more than three years. I have been a virtual prisoner for sixty.
My Father S War
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Author : Carolyn Ross Johnston
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2012-08-03
My Father S War written by Carolyn Ross Johnston and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author draws on her father's account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naive southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level. During the war, the protocol that required the assignment of southern white officers to command black units, both in Europe and in the Pacific theater, was often problematic, but Johnston seemed more successful than most, earning the trust and respect of his men at the same time that he learned to trust and respect them. Gene Johnston and the African American soldiers were transformed by the war and upon their return helped transform the nation. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston.
Finding Your Father S War
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Author : Jonathan Gawne
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2020-12-28
Finding Your Father S War written by Jonathan Gawne and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-28 with History categories.
A guide to learning more about your relatives’ experience serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. In this fully revised edition of Finding Your Father’s War, military historian Jonathan Gawne has written an easily accessible handbook for anyone seeking greater knowledge of their relatives’ experience in World War II, or indeed anyone seeking a better understanding of the U.S. Army during World War II. With over 470 photographs, charts, and an engaging narrative with many rare insights into wartime service, this book is an invaluable tool for understanding our “citizen soldiers,” who once rose as a generation to fight the greatest war in American history. “Jonathan's Gawne’s book is a 5-star blueprint, well-written and beautifully illustrated, to deciphering a loved one’s WW2 U.S. Army service.” —The Commander’s Voice “A great read not only for genealogists wishing to research an ancestor, but also for those who simply have an interest in the United States Army during World War II . . . written so that anyone, even those with no military background, can understand, yet also includes more advanced information . . . detail is phenomenal . . . a must read reference book for any professional genealogist or military historian.” —APG Quarterly
My Father S Secret War
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Author : Lucinda Franks
language : en
Publisher: Miramax Books
Release Date : 2008-03-11
My Father S Secret War written by Lucinda Franks and has been published by Miramax Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II. Sworn to secrecy, he began revealing details of his wartime activities only in the last years of his life as he became afflicted with Alzheimer's. His exploits revealed a man of remarkable bravado -- posing as a Nazi guard, slipping behind enemy lines to blow up ammunition dumps, and being flown to one of the first concentration camps liberated by the Allies to report on the atrocities found there. My Father's Secret War is an intimate account of Franks coming to know her own father after years of estrangement. Looking back at letters he had written her mother in the early days of WWII, Franks glimpses a loving man full of warmth. But after the grimmest assignments of the war his tone shifts, settling into an all-too-familiar distance. Franks learns about him -- beyond the alcoholism and adultery -- and comes to know the man he once was. Her story is haunting, and beautifully told, even as the tragedy becomes clear: Franks finally comes to know her father, but only as he is slipping further into his illness. Lucinda Franks understands her father as the disease claims him. My Father's Secret War is a triumph of love over secrets, and a tribute to the power of the connection of family.