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Duty: A Father, His Son, And The Man Who Won The War
de Greene, Bob
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0380978490
- ISBN 13
- 9780380978496
- Librería
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
William Morrow, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine conditions with blue boards, cream spine cloth and blue gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the book, "". . . the story of three lives connected by history, proximity, and blood; indeed, it is manystories, intimate and achingly personal as well as deeply historic. In one soldier's membory of a mission that transformed th 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."" * One of the lives: that of 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 . . . to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb.""
Sinopsis
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. Duty is 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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Detalles
- Librería
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- M001389
- Título
- Duty: A Father, His Son, And The Man Who Won The War
- Autor
- Greene, Bob
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0380978490
- ISBN 13
- 9780380978496
- Editorial
- William Morrow
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- Biography, World War II - 1939-1945, Bob Green - Family, Robert B Green - 1915-1998, Paul W Tibbets - 1915-2007
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; History of World War II;
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Sobre el vendedor
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
Sobre Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Text Block
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- Number Line
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