War Stories for My Grandchildren

Storytelling at its best this compelling memoir graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men who seek a place in the world by way of a military career. Exhausted shadows of the past are brought alive with uncommon eloquence as the author looks back on his youth brimming with innocence idealism and patriotism.</P>A page turner the book explores the complex nature of a man whose brave daring and sometimes foolhardy exploits led to the essential task; building a scaffold of choices and attitudes by rendering meaning from the intractable depths of experience.</P>What in other hands might be a dreary tale of adolescent angst betrayal and disillusion takes on truly pyrotechnic energy lifting his coming of age from the mundane to the profound.</P>