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Title The house of memory : reflections on youth and war / John Freely.
Author Freely, John, author.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2017.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B FREELY    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents Part One. Youth -- Sailing Against the Tide -- Depression Brooklyn -- The Shadow of War -- All Will Be Well -- I'm in the Navy Now -- Part Two. War -- Preparing for War -- Shipping Out -- Lost Horizon -- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain -- The Rivers of Paradise -- The Ungovernable Sea -- Part Three. Memory -- Waves Washing the Sand.
Summary "In an entertaining and tender memoir, the 90-year-old author remembers his fully lived life, from growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, to serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy Commando unit,"--NoveList.
Subject Freely, John.
United States. Navy.
United States Navy.
World War, 1939-1945.
Coming of age -- Biography.
Interpersonal relations -- Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
Ireland -- Biography.
ISBN 0451494709
9780451494702 : $26.95
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