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<p>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.</p> <p>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 <b>Enola Gay,</b> after his mother—to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><b>Duty</b> is the story of

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Author

Bob, author Greene

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061741418

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Military, Memoir

Rating

3.97 / 5 (345 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13