The house of memory
Subtitle: reflections on youth and war
By: John Freely
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knopf; Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780451494702
Subjects: United States; Coming of age; Interpersonal relations; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Navy; Biography
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Youth; title: Sailing Against the Tide; title: Depression Brooklyn; title: The Shadow of War; title: All Will Be Well; title: I'm in the Navy Now; title: Part Two. War; title: Preparing for War; title: Shipping Out; title: Lost Horizon; title: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain; title: The Rivers of Paradise; title: The Ungovernable Sea; title: Part Three. Memory; title: Waves Washing the Sand.