Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War

When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before-thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world.

Greene's father-a soldier with an infantry division in World War II-often spoke of seeing the man around town. All but anonymous even in his own city, carefully maintaining his privacy, this man, Greene's father would point out to h...