Duty : A Father, His Son,& Man Who Won the War by Bob Greene ( FIRST EDITION) HC

When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be w 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 w 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 him, had won the war. He was Paul Tibbets. At the age of twenty-nine, at the request of his country, Tibbets assembled a secret team of 1,800 American soldiers to carry out the single most violent act in the history of mankind. In 1945 Tibbets piloted a plane--which he called Enola Gay, after his mother--to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal he ever ate with his father, Greene went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unlikely friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, & his father's generation of soldiers, that he never fully understood before. DUTY is the story of three lives connected by history, proximity, & blood; indeed, it is many stories, intimate & achingly personal as well as deeply historic. In one soldier's memory of a mission that transformed the world.  Hardcover book titled 'Duty' by Bob Greene. Features a vintage-style cover with sepia tones and blue text.  EUC Smokefree home