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One Soldier's Story

A Memoir

by Bob Dole

ISBN: 0060763418
ISBN-13: 9780060763411
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Bob Dole was a member of what Tom Brokaw called "the Greatest Generation," the Americans who grew up during the Depression and who served in World War II. Dole later became famous as a US senator, and even later, in 1996, as the Republican party candidate for the presidency. In this memoir, he recounts his formative years in Russell, Kansas, where he had dreams of being the first one in his family to go to college-and was. In 1943, Dole left school to join the Army, where he became a lieutenant, and in April 1945, in Italy, he was seriously wounded in battle. He underwent a slow and difficult rehabilitation, yet never regained the use of one arm. Dole tells a simple story of life during wartime, providing resonance with passages from letters that he wrote to his loved ones. What emerges is the voice of one soldier telling the story of what happened to him-an inspiring tale in which Dole credits the army and his family for getting him through. In the end he reflects on the hardships and challenges he faced, saying, "Life, on the whole, has been more than fair to me."

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"Heartfelt and highly idealized, [Dole's] picture of small town life in the Midwest before the war takes on a kind of mythic power."    -- William Grimes

   -- New York Times

"[An] affecting memoir....[A] restrained and poignant account...."

   -- Publishers Weekly

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2005
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.25 pounds
Pages: 287

Publisher's Notes

Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the final days of World War II is the stuff of legend. Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life.

Speaking here not as a politician but as a wounded G.I., Dole recounts his own odyssey of courage and sacrifice, and also honors the fighting spirit of the countless heroes with whom he served. Heartfelt and inspiring, One Soldier's Story is the World War II chronicle that America has been waiting for.

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