- Taschenbuch: 416 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper; Auflage: Lrg (20. Juni 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060197552
- ISBN-13: 978-0060197551
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,6 x 2,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (20 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.227.756 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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As his father's death approached, Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Greene was forced to come to terms with their distant relationship. He found in another man, Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the atomic bomb to Hiroshima, someone who could help him understand his father's generation. Tibbets lived in obscurity in Greene's hometown, Columbus, Ohio. After 20 years of attempts to interview him, Greene got to meet Tibbets informally. That led to friendship and a chance to understand the reticence and the responsibility of Tibbets' and his father's generation. To Greene, his father seemed to be the archetypal man in the gray-flannel suit, a no-nonsense corporate worker who kept his nose to the grindstone, never complaining but never connecting either. Tibbets, like Greene's father, was a reticent man. But the fact that Greene was working a legitimate news and historical angle and that he and Tibbets weren't related helped ease communication between them. Tibbets' astonishing mission and unswerving responsibility in carrying it out symbolized for Greene the sense of duty of his father's generation. That sense of duty is also evident in the ruminations of Greene's father, excerpted from the taped oral history he left for his children, which are interspersed throughout Greene's narrative. Through his father's death and his friendship with Tibbets, Greene writes, he "realized anew that so many of us only now, only at the very end, are beginning to truly know our fathers and mothers." A touching look at parent-child relationships and the psychological distance that can grow between generations. Vanessa Bush
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A best-selling author and syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Greene recounts an unlikely chain of events that led from his father's death to friendship with his father's neighbor, the pilot of the famed Enola Gay.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The morning after the last meal I ever ate with my father, I finally met the man who won the war. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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It takes a lot to stay focused on a mission as complex as the one that faced Paul Tibbets. The historical FACT is that most strategists at that time - and most fair-thinking historians today - estimate that the US alone would have lost more than 500,000 lives, and the Japanese manyfold that number should the requisite invasion of the home islands ocurred. Tibbets mission in putting the bomb on the target precluded that horrific requirement, thereby saving untold lives. More important though, this book is also a device for the author to understand his father's own, unheralded heroism, and to understand his fathers generation. If you are a baby-boomer who only vaguely recalls your Dad's WWII service, read this book and get an insight into him and his generation.
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I am afraid I really could not suggest this book to anyone above the age of 40 who knew their father. I read this book looking for some insight into the bombing of Hiroshima and what Bob Greene discovered about his father by talking with Tibbets. I was disappointed because it seems that Bob went into this not knowing anything about WW2 or the military. Unfortunately it also seems that he and his father never really talked at all, so he had to go to a stranger to find out what his father was like. That is sad. He brings this book off lauding Tibbets for the great hero he was. I don't mean to demean what Tibbets did. He was a hero. But if you read between the lines of his,(Bob's), fathers reminices you begin to realize that he was probably a real hero also. If you are looking for a book that tells it like it was and gives some insight to how people felt back during the war read "Flags of Our Fathers".
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'Duty' is a very special book. It takes three individual subjects and, through Bob Greene's rare talent, makes them not only analogous, but seemingly inseparable. I haven't been this affected by a book in 20 years. This is going to stay with me for a very long time. A father's dying days, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the mindset and value system of the twentieth century's most intrepid generation. Greene not only ties those 3 subjects together in a seamless storyline, he changes your mindset, expectations, and definition of the word "duty". Want a great war story? Listen in on the 3 principals who, in their own words, describe how they carried out the single most destructive act in the history of the world. Want a father-son love story? Read the words Greene's father recorded onto an audio tape for his son. Words, spoken years before his last, sickly, dying days, described his life. Words, sounding vibrant and hopeful, that Greene listened to even as at the same time, he could hear his father's frail, confused voice in the next room. Ever wonder what made the Depression/WWII generation tick? Read, in their own words, how they think. What is important to them--how they process and catagorize beliefs, responsibilities, and minutiae--why individual accolades and the collective spotlight is more distraction and frivolous emptiness to them than positive reinforcement. Paul Tibbets (....the man who won the war), gets the most print, but his generation as a whole is the character that drives this book. In Tibbet's own words, " Who knew who doesn't matter". What matters is duty, and a job well done. Well done, Bob Greene. Thanks. Read it. Read it for your own good.
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Duty or blind conformity
Although I did find Greene's style of folksy reminiscence cathcy, the horrific subject and the way he treats it more than offset any redeeming quality that this book might have... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von mrgrieves08
The Lives of the World War II Generation
Bob Greene takes us by the hand, ever so gently, and forces us to explore many points in the lives of our parents' generation-- from the good-time pre-War days, through the long,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von Frank Dunnigan
Well-written and powerful, if a little bit disjointed
First, unlike many of the books currently being published to honor the World War II generation, "Duty" is extremely well-written. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 2000 von Jussi Bjorling
Better than "Greatest Generation" or "Flags of Our...
An excellent tribute to the World War II generation. This book surpasses "The Greatest Generation" in its investigation of it principal character, Brig. Gen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juli 2000 von Steve Iaco
Duty, a father,his son, and the man who won the war
I believe it is almost impossible for someone who lived during World War two and remembers those trying years to avoid tears when reading many parts of this narrative, especially... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juli 2000 von Ellis Glazier
too Many Books In One
First of all I love Bob Greene's work and stories of WWII. However, I did not enjoy Duty. I felt that the thing that make Greene's columns so good made the book hard to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juni 2000 von Skip
If you Have a Father you Must Read this Book
When I finished "Duty" I calmly set the book down and spent several minutes thinking about my own dad. To say that this book is touching is an understatement. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juni 2000 von James Shapiro
"Doolittle's Raiders -- Those Were Real Heroes"
This quote came from Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay (named after his mother) to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von Donald Mitchell
For Fathers and Sons -- Bridging Gaps
With Father's Day just around the corner I wanted to share a review of "DUTY," one of the best books I've ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juni 2000 von Lee K. Shuster
A unique, insightful perspective
I've always loved WWII history, especially how it affected the common GI. Bob Greene had always hoped to meet "the man who won the war",Gen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
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