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"Oral
history at its best."
Joe Galloway, coauthor of We Were
Soldiers Once ... and Young
"A major contribution to the history of these two distinct and influential wars."
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rave Men, Gentle Heroes presents
the frank, moving, and harrowing stories
of men who served in World War II and
their sons who served in Vietnam –
fathers and sons bonded as deeply by
their common experience in war as by
blood.
These are men who served in the Army,
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Officers
and enlisted men, career servicemen
and citizen soldiers. Men of European,
African, Asian, Latino, and ...
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his book has its origins in
a con- versation I had with
my father in Decem-ber 1992,
three weeks before
his death. We were in a hospital
room in Eliz-abeth, New Jersey,
the working-class town where
he had lived his entire
life, save
1942–46, his years in
the Army.
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Dad had always loved
to tell stories of his time in
the service and I had never tired
of hearing them, even though ...
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“A
superb oral history of two
generations at war . . . .
[W]ould do Studs Terkel proud.”
“M
ichael Takiff’s page-turner,
fea-turing the stories of
fathers and sons who served
during World War II and Vietnam,
paints a picture of these
two wars through new eyes.”
Military
Times Media Group
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JOHN
MACE:
January 15, 1945
"They pinned us down there
in that snow all day. We were sticking up like
a sore thumb out there in our ODs — olive
drab ..."
SANDY
WALMSLEY: Marines and
Corpsmen
"They trusted you with
their lives, and they took care of you, too.
It was a very close bond. It was set up to be
that way ..."
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"The fathers who won World
War II produced sons who struggled in Vietnam.
Michael Takiff takes us on a ..."
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Author JAMES BRADLEY
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"Brave Men, Gentle Heroes
is an uplifting cross-gener-ational
meditation on duty, honor, country, and, above
all else, family ..."
-Historian DOUGLAS
BRINKLEY
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