The House of Memory : Reflections on Youth and War

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910164950103321
• Autore: Freely John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-451-49471-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Youth -- Sailing against the tide -- Depression Brooklyn -- All will be well -- I'm in the Navy now -- Part 2. War -- Preparing for war -- Shipping out -- Lost horizon -- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain -- The rivers of paradise -- The ungovernable sea -- Part 3. Memory -- Waves washing the sand.
• Sommario/riassunto: "An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit."--Provided by publisher.