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Web-Exclusive: Related Titles
By Diane Brown, November 2005, April & May 2006
If you enjoyed Scott Turow's Ordinary Heroes, peruse these other picks about the search for a parent’s wartime past
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Our Fathers' War: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Greatest Generation
by Tom Mathews (Broadway, 2005)
Inspired by his rocky relationship with his World War II vet father, journalist Mathews interviews a varied group of other Boomer sons and their fathers to probe their relationships. A common thread to their stories: a remoteness (sometimes estrangement) between the generations rooted chiefly in the fathers' inability to express their feelings about the war.
My Father the Spy
by John H. Richardson (HarperCollins, 2005)
The author was a rebellious teen when his father was a CIA station chief in Vietnam. Years later, as the elder Richardson nears death, his son, now a journalist, tries to reconcile his love for his dad with his own skepticism of the slippery world of spies by unraveling some Cold War secrets, including his father's role in the escalation of the Vietnam War.
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
by Emily Yellin (Free Press, 2004)
An in-depth look at the surprisingly diverse roles played by women—from war brides who kept the home fires burning to enlisted military officers and overseas espionage agents. The author doesn't shy away from also examining the anti-Semitic Mothers' Movement, the exclusion of African American women from the military, and the internment of Japanese American women.
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The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
by Louise Steinman (Plume, 2002)
Intrigued by the inscription on a Japanese flag she finds among her deceased father's World War II memorabilia, the author sets out to find the Japanese soldier the flag belonged to. During a trip to Japan, where she meets the dead soldier's family, she comes to understand more about her father—and war—from both sides of the battle.
Finding Your Father's War: A Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II U.S. Army
by Jonathan Gawne (Casemate Publishers, 2005)
A military historian and researcher explains how to use libraries, archives, veterans groups, military records, and other resources to track the career of anyone who was in the U.S. Army.
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