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Our Fathers' War: Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Greatest Generation

Tom Mathews

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Description:A powerful and unique portrait of generational strife and changing styles of masculinity as seen through the stories of ten World War II veterans and their baby boomersons. It is fair to say that Tom Mathews's relations with his father, a veteran of World War II's fabled 10th Mountain Division, were terrible. He came back from the war toa young son he'd barely met and proceeded to bully and browbeat him-for his own good, he thought. In the course of puzzling out almost fifty years of intermittent conflict, Mathews came to understandthat their problems were not simply personal, they were generational-and widely shared by millions of other baby boomer sons. And so, to write this powerful book, which traces the kinetic effect of the war on themen who fought it, their sons, and their grandsons, Mathews has uncovered nine other dramatic and telling father-son tales of veterans in some ways missing in action and how internal war wounds shaped their lives asfathers. These include a combat infantryman whose life was saved by the fabled Audie Murphy, and a black member of the storied Tuskegee Airmen corps. In a moving final chapter, he and his father return together to Italy torevisit scenes from the war-and attempt, at long last, to forge their own separate peace.In a very real sense, "Our Fathers' War" tells the secret history of World War II andits echoes down the years and generations. In the course of doing so, it offers a portrait of evolving styles of American manhood that many, many fathers and sons have been needing and awaiting.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Fathers' War: Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Greatest Generation. To get started finding Our Fathers' War: Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Greatest Generation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A powerful and unique portrait of generational strife and changing styles of masculinity as seen through the stories of ten World War II veterans and their baby boomersons. It is fair to say that Tom Mathews's relations with his father, a veteran of World War II's fabled 10th Mountain Division, were terrible. He came back from the war toa young son he'd barely met and proceeded to bully and browbeat him-for his own good, he thought. In the course of puzzling out almost fifty years of intermittent conflict, Mathews came to understandthat their problems were not simply personal, they were generational-and widely shared by millions of other baby boomer sons. And so, to write this powerful book, which traces the kinetic effect of the war on themen who fought it, their sons, and their grandsons, Mathews has uncovered nine other dramatic and telling father-son tales of veterans in some ways missing in action and how internal war wounds shaped their lives asfathers. These include a combat infantryman whose life was saved by the fabled Audie Murphy, and a black member of the storied Tuskegee Airmen corps. In a moving final chapter, he and his father return together to Italy torevisit scenes from the war-and attempt, at long last, to forge their own separate peace.In a very real sense, "Our Fathers' War" tells the secret history of World War II andits echoes down the years and generations. In the course of doing so, it offers a portrait of evolving styles of American manhood that many, many fathers and sons have been needing and awaiting.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Fathers' War: Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Greatest Generation. To get started finding Our Fathers' War: Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Greatest Generation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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