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Jack Toffey's War : A Son's Memoir /

"I see this book as the story my father never got to tell," John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell. In this moving account of a young man's journey to know a father who went to war in 1942 and never came back, John Toffey weav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Toffey, John J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Colección:World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. The First Letter
  • Chapter 2. Young Jack
  • Chapter 3. Fort Dix and the Forty-fourth Division
  • Chapter 4. Coast to Coast, 1942
  • Chapter 5. French Morocco
  • Chapter 6. Tunisia
  • Chapter 7. Algerian Interlude
  • Chapter 8. Sicily
  • Chapter 9. Summer Interludes
  • Chapter 10. Southern Italy
  • Chapter 11. Italian Interlude
  • Chapter 12. Anzio: The Can-Dos
  • Chapter 13. Anzio: The Willing and Ables
  • Chapter 14. The Roads to Rome
  • Chapter 15. The Paths of Glory
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index