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Duty
A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War
by Bob Greene
ISBN: 0060197552
ISBN-13: 9780060197551
Format: Paperback
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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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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2000
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 409
Publisher's Notes
When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before--thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world. Greene's father -- a soldier with an infantry division in World War II--often spoke of seeing the man around town. All but anonymous even in his own city, carefully maintaining his privacy, this man, Greene's father would point out to him, had "won the war." He was Paul Tibbets. At the age of twenty-nine, at the request of his country, Tibbets assembled a secret team of 1,800 American soldiers to carry out the single most violent act in the history of mankind. In 1945 Tibbets piloted a plane--which he called Enola Gay, after his mother -- to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal he ever ate with his father, Greene went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unlikely friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father's generation of soldiers, that he never fully understood before. DUTYis the story of three lives connected by history, proximity, and blood; indeed, it is many stories, intimate and achingly personal as well as deeply historic. In one soldier's memory of a mission that transformed the world -- and in a son's last attempt to grasp his father's ingrained sense of honor and duty -- lies a powerful tribute to the ordinary heroes of an extraordinary time in American life. What Greene came away with is found history and found poetry -- a profoundly moving work that offers a vividly new perspective on responsibility, empathy, and love. It is an exploration of and response to the concept of duty as it once was and always should be: quiet and from the heart. On every page you can hear the whisper of a generation and its children bidding each other farewell.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins, 2000. LARGE PRINT EDITION. Soft Cover (Grade A) No names or markings, short Author's Biographical Sketch. 409 crisp, clean & solid pp. GIFT QUALITY. Soft Cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Julie's Books (United States)
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Greene, Bob
HarperLargePrint. 2000. Large type / large print.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine. Clean solid tight book with clean near white pages.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. . ( more information) Offered by Steigerhouse (United States)
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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". ( more information) Offered by Uffda-shop Books (United States)
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