All Roads Lead to Rome – Searching for the End of My Father`s War

Name: All Roads Lead to Rome – Searching for the End of My Father`s War
Brand: John Wiley & Sons Inc
SKU: 9781640126275
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Szerző: Bill Thorness

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: John Wiley & Sons Inc

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What happens when a seasoned journalist and travel writer takes on his most challenging assignment y...

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Szerző

Bill Thorness

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2024

oldal

280

EAN

9781640126275

ISBN

1640126279

Enbook ID

44766393

Kiadó

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Súly

666

Méretek

152 x 229 x 15

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What happens when a seasoned journalist and travel writer takes on his most challenging assignment yet-crossing not just continents but also history-by retracing his father’s steps on the battlefields of Italy in World War II? When a slim packet of his father’s letters came to light after his mother’s death, Bill Thorness began a quest to rediscover his father. Thorness traveled to the World War II battlefields where America’s first team of commandos fought. The youngest son of one of those commandos, Thorness gained a sense of the horror his father had kept from his family while standing on the mountain where the First Special Service Force fought. Then, standing on a bridge in Rome, he reflected on the loss his father must have felt in not making it to the end of the campaign to liberate the Eternal City. In All Roads Lead to Rome Thorness considers his father’s decisive moments in battle and beyond, and how he soldiered on as a disabled veteran through his life, raising a family and succumbing to an early death. Alternating between reimagined battle scenes and present-day travels, Thorness explores World War II and family history, the value and limits of memory, the attitudes of war, and our society’s inadequate understanding and support of combat veterans, who may return with physical and emotional scars that change them deeply. Thorness steps into his father’s shoes to revisit his story and finish that walk into Rome, weaving an account that is part travelogue, part history, and part memoir about the ravages of war.

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