When is Daddy Coming Home?: An American Family during World War II

Now in paperback, a bestselling memoir of a family on the home front during World War II World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family's home in Janesville, Wisconsin. That moment, when Haney learned of his father's death in the final months of fighting, changed his and his mother's lives forever.

In this powerful book, Haney explores the impact of war on an American family. He skillfully weaves together those...