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A Memoir
Miramax
March 2007
On Sale: March 14, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 140135226X
EAN: 9781401352264
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child,
father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda
Franks discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she
grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy
lines in World War II. Sworn to secrecy, he began revealing
details of his wartime activities only in the last years of
his life as he became afflicted with Alzheimer’s. His
exploits revealed a man of remarkable bravado -- posing as a
Nazi guard, slipping behind enemy lines to blow up
ammunition dumps, and being flown to one of the first
concentration camps liberated by the Allies to report on the
atrocities found there. My Father’s Secret War is an intimate account of Franks
coming to know her own father after years of estrangement.
Looking back at letters he had written her mother in the
early days of WWII, Franks glimpses a loving man full of
warmth. But after the grimmest assignments of the war his
tone shifts, settling into an all-too-familiar distance.
Franks learns about him -- beyond the alcoholism and
adultery -- and comes to know the man he once was. Her story is haunting, and beautifully told, even as the
tragedy becomes clear: Franks finally comes to know her
father, but only as he is slipping further into his illness.
Lucinda Franks understands her father as the disease claims
him. My Father’s Secret War is a triumph of love over
secrets, and a tribute to the power of the connection of
family.
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