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The house of memory : reflections on youth and war / John Freely.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780451494702 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 252 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- Copyright: c2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Youth -- Sailing against the tide -- Depression brooklyn -- All will be well -- I'm in the Navy now -- Part 2. War -- Preparing for war -- Shipping out -- Lost horizon -- Jade Snow Dragon Mountain -- The rivers of paradise -- The ungovernable sea -- Part 3. Memory -- Waves washing the sand. |
| Summary, etc.: | "An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Freely, John. World War, 1939-1945 > East Asia. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Myanmar World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > China. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > India. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
The House of Memory : Reflections on Youth and War
John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 26, 1926. During World War II, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy. He studied physics at Iona College and New York University and did thermonuclear research at the Forrestal Research Center, Princeton University. In 1960, he took a post teaching theoretical physics at Robert College, Istanbul. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Strolling Through Istanbul written with Hilary Sumner-Boyd, Jem Sultan, Storm on Horseback, The Grand Turk, Aladdin's Lamp, Light from the East, and Before Galileo. He died on April 20, 2017 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography)
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