Buster's Book

<p>Providing insight in a family’s history against the backdrop of major world wars Buster’s Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country.</p><p>In this memoir author <b>Donald Junkins</b> has compiled letters diaries interviews recollections and photographs of the family’s participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star.</p><p><i>Buster’s Book</i> reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.</p>