Dadland

As her father's memory fails, a daughter explores his military past: "Part family memoir, part history book . . . Compelling and moving from start to finish" (Financial Times).

One of the San Francisco Chronicle's Ten Best Books of the Year

For most of Keggie Carew's life, she was kept at arm's length from her father's personal history. But when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs—an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration bet...