Duty : A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War (Large Print Edition)

by Greene, Bob

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New York NY USA: HarperLargePrint, 2000. 409+ pages. "When Bob Greene went home to Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events...thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world... On the morning after the last meal he ever ate with his father, Greene went to meet Paul Tibbets...Tibbets had organized and led a mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. What developed was an unlikely friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father's generation of soldiers, that he had never fully understood before..." "A powerful tribute to the ordinary heroes of an extraordinary time in American life.". Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 9.25"x6".

Book summary

Through a study of his dying father's hero, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets, journalist Bob Greene gains a greater understanding of the events and values of his father's generation and gleans insight into the depth of that generation's disappointment with the generation that followed. Some of this book draws on the elder Greene's WW II journals.

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