MY FATHER'S SECRET WAR
Subtitle: A MEMOIR
Publisher: Miramax
Published: March 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781401352264
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Personal Memoirs; Women; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; Fathers and daughters; Military intelligence; Spies; United States; World War, 1939-1945
Description: In this memoir, journalist Lucinda Franks describes her quest to learn to know her father. During World War II Thomas Franks served as spy in the Third Reich. In 1945 he was among the first soldiers into Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald near the town of Gotha, Germany. As Tom's dementia progresses, Lucinda gathers fragments of his memories in order to understand her father and his secrets.