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The house of memory : reflections on youth and war / John Freely.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freely, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freely, John.
- United States. Navy.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Coming of age--Biography.
- Coming of age.
- Interpersonal relations--Biography.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Ireland--Biography.
- Ireland.
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2017.
- Summary:
- "In an entertaining and tender memoir, the 90-year-old author remembers his fully lived life, from growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, to serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy Commando unit,"--NoveList.
- Contents:
- Part One. Youth
- Sailing Against the Tide
- Depression Brooklyn
- The Shadow of War
- All Will Be Well
- I'm in the Navy Now
- Part Two. War
- Preparing for War
- Shipping Out
- Lost Horizon
- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
- The Rivers of Paradise
- The Ungovernable Sea
- Part Three. Memory
- Waves Washing the Sand.
- ISBN:
- 0451494709
- 9780451494702
- OCLC:
- 951753768
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