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Loading... My Father's Secret Warpor Lucinda Franks
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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. Franks won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting. In this book, she tells the story of her parents difficult relationship and the secrets that she uncovers while dealing with her father's problems. Tom and Lorraine Franks had a terrible marriage. The two children were often caught in the middle. Lucinda , the oldest, rebelled while whe was young and eventually had to support her father financially while she was in her twenties. (Her mother had died) This book tells about the troubled relationship and how it changed as Francks discovered her father's role as a spy in World War II. The story is pieced together from her father's failing and selective memory, research and intervews, and later with the letters that Tom wrote to his wife during the war. Francks realizes that her parents did have a loving relationship that only soured after the war. What her father saw and did might have changed him forever. Francks learns truths about herself and her family as she looks for evidence of her father's exploits. Not every clue is found but Francks has contructed a more accurate picture of her father by the book's conclusion. A very satifying read. Personally, what I found compelling were the letters that Tom Francks wrote during the war. The phrases sound just those that my father wrote to my mother during the same period of time. And like Francks, I do cherish those pieces of paper that give life to departed family. (  ) torontoc | Jul 28, 2009 |  An interesting look into the mind and strength of character of a man who kept so many secrets from his family because he believed he was protecting them, and because he was told not to divulge certain information. It brought home to me, how we sometimes think we know a person, but we really just know as much as they want us to know, and only a side of them that they're willing to include us in. How sad must it have been for Cindy's father to be constantly pushed away by her in her misguided belief that her father didn't care about the family, because of the secrets he was compelled to keep. ( ) cameling | Jul 23, 2008 | My Father’s Secret War describes the author’s complicated relationship with her father, and her search to piece together the story of his activities during WWII, before he loses all memory to encroaching dementia. During the war, Thomas Franks served on advance reconnaissance teams as US forces advanced across the Pacific. He was also sent to report on Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the first to be liberated by US troops. After the war, he was a distant father, often absent from family life as he carried on a long-term affair. The author became estranged, but eventually stepped in as her father lost his ability to care for himself. The story is interesting, and tinged with the sadness of old misunderstandings and lost opportunities, but I got the feeling that Franks was just trying too hard to turn her father into a super-spy and hero. Her logic seems to go like this: I think he was a spy, but I can’t find any evidence of that. If he was a spy, they would have hidden the evidence, therefore he must have been one. (  ) oregonobsessionz | Aug 18, 2007 | In the end, not a great book by a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Times. Seemed like she went overboard trying to make her father's secret life during the war more important than it was. (  ) bobbieharv | Aug 10, 2007 | A daughter's discover that there was much more to her father than she had originally thought. She gradually lets go of old, petty resentments and begins to learn more about the father that she had really never known, A WWII spy who witnessed and survived many atrocities and harrowing events. ( ) dfullmer | May 24, 2007 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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