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Title: Duty: : A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War by Bob Greene ISBN: 0-380-81411-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (54 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Tribute From a Son to His Father
Comment: Bob Greene has written a touching and emotion-filled book about two men who influenced the outcome of World War II; his own father and Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay. Greene's father served as an infantry soldier in Italy, while Tibbets was training his men in Wendover, Utah for a mission which would hopefully end the war.
Tibbets and Robert Greene, Sr. lived in the same town in Ohio, but had never met. Bob jr. writes about how his father would speak of Tibbets and call him "the man who won the war". While Bob jr. was back in Ohio to be with his dying father, he drew on his memories of Tibbets. Finally, Bob went to meet Tibbets. What occured was the beginning of an unlikely friendship that spanned a generation and allowed Bob to discover things about his father and his father's generation that he never understood before.
Bob found Tibbets to be a very honest and straight-forward man. There was no nonsense from him; everything was in plain terms. Tibbets talked frequently about his mission to Hiroshima on that fateful day in August, 1945. He said several times that he had no regrets for what he did and he always slept easy at night. Tibbets' stories enabled Bob to see that his father and many other men just like him also played large parts in winning the war. Tibbets never liked the phrase "the man who won the war". He was always quick to give credit to the soldiers as the real heroes, just like Robert sr.
Perhaps my favorite part of the book is the several chapters which deal with the trip to Branson, Missouri. Bob, Tibbets, Tom Ferebee (bombardier), and "Dutch" Van Kirk (navigator) took a trip to Branson over Memorial Day weekend and they were treated like conquering heroes by the public. But what impressed me was the candor and openness that these men spoke with. I learned a lot about the Hiroshima mission that I never knew before.
I found this book a little slow at the beginning, but it definitely picks up over the second half. Read this book and learn about the generation of men who won the war.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book about a hero and a father and how much are alike
Comment: A great book about a true hero and other's worthy of the same label. A very easy and engaging read. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: A disappointment .
Comment: I have seen Bob Greene on some of the news stories on TV. I like his wit and sentiment. I was prepared for a great book on the great generation that produced his and my father. I was disappointed.
First, the book is disjointed. It goes from sentiment to sentiment, and then reverts back again. In his talks with General Paul Tidbitts, I thought he kept dwelling on the same emotions of a hard military decision. That decision was made long ago, and why keep hammering away at it. Bob, just get over it. The U.S. had to bomb Japan to spare the lives of American soldiers and sailors.
Another problem I have with this book is its lack of history. It tells a little of the history of his father, some of Tidbitts, and then a little on the Doolittle Raiders. Other than that, it is pure sentiment, repeated again and again. For a 300 page book, this could have been cut to 80 pages. I read this book, and it was a disappointment. If one wants to remember the Greatest Generation, read something from Ambrose.
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Title: Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights by Bob Greene ISBN: 0060959665 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene ISBN: 0060081961 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Once Upon a Town : The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene ISBN: 006008197X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: All Summer Long by Bob Greene ISBN: 0312262841 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Be True to Your School by Bob Green ISBN: 0345353943 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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