It is fair to say that Tom Mathews’s relations with his
father, a veteran of World War II’s fabled 10th Mountain Division,
were terrible. He came back from the war to a young son he’d barely
met and proceeded to bully and browbeat him—for his own good, he
thought. In the course of puzzling out almost fifty years of
intermittent conflict, Mathews came to understand that their
problems were not simply personal, they were generational—and
widely shared by millions of other baby boomer sons. And so, to
write this powerful book, which traces the kinetic effect of the
war on the men who fought it, their sons, and their grandsons,
Mathews has uncovered nine other dramatic and telling father-son
tales of veterans in some ways missing in action and how internal
war wounds shaped their lives as fathers. These include a combat
infantryman whose life was saved by the fabled Audie Murphy, and a
black member of the storied Tuskegee Airmen corps. In a moving
final chapter, he and his father return together to Italy to
revisit scenes from the war—and attempt, at long last, to forge
their own separate peace.
In a very real sense, Our Fathers’ War tells the secret
history of World War II and its echoes down the years and
generations. In the course of doing so, it offers a portrait of
evolving styles of American manhood that many, many fathers and
sons have been needing and awaiting.
關於作者：
TOM MATTHEWS worked for three decades for
Newsweek, where he served as New York Bureau Chief, Senior
Writer for National Affairs, Foreign Editor, Culture Editor, and
Senior Editor for Special Projects, and won a National Magazine
Award. For the past ten years he has written fiction and nonfiction
works about soldiers and war: Standing Fast, a New York
Times Notable Book; with Col. David Hackworth, the novel The
Price of Honor; Hazardous Duty; and Steel My
Soldier’s Hearts. Mathews lives in Sag Harbor, New
York.
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