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Original Title: | Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War |
ISBN: | 0380814110 (ISBN13: 9780380814114) |
Edition Language: | English |
Bob Greene
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4 | 515 Users | 75 Reviews
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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 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, and his father's generation of soldiers, that he never fully understood before.
Duty is the story of three lives connected by history, proximity, and blood; indeed, it is many stories, intimate and achingly personal as well as deeply historic. In one soldier's memory of a mission that transformed the world—and in a son's last attempt to grasp his father's ingrained sense of honor and duty—lies a powerful tribute to the ordinary heroes of an extraordinary time in American life.
What Greene came away with is found history and found poetry—a profoundly moving work that offers a vividly new perspective on responsibility, empathy, and love. It is an exploration of and response to the concept of duty as it once was and always should be: quiet and from the heart. On every page you can hear the whisper of a generation and its children bidding each other farewell.

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Title | : | Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War |
Author | : | Bob Greene |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
Published | : | April 24th 2001 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published May 16th 2000) |
Categories | : | History. Biography. Nonfiction. War. World War II |
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Because much of the WW II generation have no remorse about it including the commander in chief Harry S. Truman whose orders the bombardier followed. I quote from the book Tibbets, the bombardier's statement. "The biggest misconception is that the war was going to end anyway. That what we did was not necessary. Do you have any idea how many American lives would have been lost had we launched a ground invasion of Japan, instead of dropping the bomb? And how many Japanese lives? I sleep so wellI had more time than I'd like to read this past weekend & read this book. The first 1/3 didn't really pull me in, but after that it did. The book is a first hand look by Greene at his father's death, with whom he'd never communicated well. His father defined much of his life by his experience in WWII. While unimpressed by most people, Greene's father held the heroes of WWII in very high esteem, especially Paul Tibbets, the man who assembled & led the team that delivered the atomic bombs

A simple but well-written book. As Greene is visiting his dying father, he learns that Paul Tibbets lives in the same area of Ohio. Paul Tibbets was the man who led the squadron of planes that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. The books becomes a series of talks with Tibbets intertwined with snippets of Green's father's life, especially with his (the father's) experiences in the Army during the italian campaign. It is a book that respects the sacrifices made during and after the war by the (mostly)
This book has so much to offer that everyone should read it. It's about the relationship between a veteran of World War II and his son (the author Bob Greene) and at the same time it's about Paul Tibbets who piloted the Enola Gay to Hiroshima and dropped the atomic bomb. And it's about the relationship the author built with Paul Tibbets. It's a powerful look at what Tom Brokaw called The Greatest Generation. I'm so glad I read it.
A book that helped me comprehend the necessity of dropping the atom bomb. It helped me see what that generation saw--it would end the war and although it would be a single moment of devastation it would save countless lives from drawn out devastation. If you take into account that the number of causalities for WWII reach upwards to 70 million and the bombings in Japan were around 250,000 I think we can better understand how more years at war would have been even more devastating than the atom
This book came up when I requested the new Robert Gates book by the same name from the library. The full title of this intrigued me enough to see what the book was about and I'm so glad that I did. The title really was accurate. This was a story about Bob Greene (the son), his father (also Bob Greene), and the man who won the war (Paul Tibbets). Bob Greene the elder died soon after his son finally gets to meet and interview Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay and commander of the unit that
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