Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
by Bob Greene
Greene's dying father and Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, who lived in the same Ohio town: conversations about duty, the war generation and what they did not say. Quiet and affecting.
Read it if…
you want a meditation on fathers and the war generation.
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Skip it if…
you want a debate on the bomb; the book is personal.
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Three things you will actually use
- Duty is done and not discussed.
- Ask fathers before it is too late.
- A generation's silence held a lot.
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Read the first conversations with Tibbets.
Our verdict
Fathers and duty.
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