The author's relations with his father, a veteran of World War II, were terrible. The soldier came back from the war to a young son he'd barely met and proceede

Charley Valeras own father had spent almost 4 years fighting during WWII and lived out the rest of his life without a story to tell. To share stories that hadnt

Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in his family and in the world, and endure the brutal military training his father puts him through, a

* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 * My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's j

The other two, Guadalcanal and Peleliu, are legendary.