Title: My Father's Secret War
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.
Subjects: Vater, Tochter, Spionage, Spies, Fathers and daughters, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Military intelligence, New York Times reviewed, Weltkrieg, Father-daughter relationship
Places: United States, USA
People: Thomas Edward Franks, Lucinda Franks