01621nam 22003853 450 991016495010332120230809222728.00-451-49471-7(CKB)3710000001064342(MiAaPQ)EBC6042631(Au-PeEL)EBL6042631(OCoLC)1156036016(EXLCZ)99371000000106434220210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe House of Memory Reflections on Youth and WarWestminster :Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,2017.©2017.1 online resource (245 pages)0-451-49470-9 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."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.China, Burma, India TheaterFreely John639219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164950103321The House of Memory2589727UNINA