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Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension) by Louise A. DeSalvo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man—and herself—and the effect of his military service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. During his last years, as he told her about his life, DeSalvo began to understand that her obsession with war novels and military history wasn't merely academic but rooted in her desire to understand this complex father whom she both adored and reviled because of his mistreatment of her. Although she at first believes she wants to uncover his story, the story of a man who was no hero but who was nonetheless adversely affected by the his military service, she learns that what she really wants is to recover the man that he was before he went away. As DeSalvo and her father uncover his past piece-by-piece, bit-by-bit, she learns about the dreams of a working-class man who entered the military in the late 1930s during peacetime to better himself, a man who wanted to become a pilot. She learns about what it was like for him to participate in war g

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Author

Louise A. DeSalvo

Publisher

Fordham University Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823268719

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography