My Grandfather's War: A Young Man's Lessons From The Greatest Generation

by Jesse Cozean

Overview

How buried WWII memories brought a boy and his grandfather together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762773831
Publisher:	Globe Pequot
Publication date:	12/20/2011
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jesse Cozean is an engineering consultant and a writer. As part of his charity work with the East Africa Partnership, he writes the organization’s newsletter, which reaches more than 15,000 people both in print and online. He lives in San Clemente, California.

Read an Excerpt

"We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth birthday, Papa began bringing up his time as a prisoner of warin Germany."Of course, I had always known that he had served in World War II and been captured, just like I had always known the stories about my grandmother and the building of their house. It's that peculiar type of family memory, where someone has obviously told you but you were too young to remember actually hearing it, so it seems like knowledge that was instilled at birth. Papa never brought it up, and my parents said they hadn't heard him mention it once in the previous fifty years. But suddenly, he was talking."