A native of Upstate New York, M. Thomas Apple gave up his high school dreams of becoming the next Carl Sagan and instead studied languages and literature at Bard College and creative writing at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. Somehow thereafter he managed to get to hired to teach intercultural communication at a university in Kyoto, Japan. He lives in a quasi-traditional Japanese house co-designed with his wife and partially decorated by his two daughters, nestled in the foothills of the mountains and surrounded by lots of cedar and cicada. He occasionally dreams of the (inside the park) homerun he hit in high school and wonders how that would feel on Mars.
Lt. John Peter Hart, a first-generation German-American from Troy, New York was ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country, in Operation Overlord.
Unknown to him, his friend and future wife's second husband was building bridges and roads along the Apennines in Italy. John Hart's decision to join up in early 1940 and become an officer sealed the fate of not only himself but also that of three families.
This is the true story of Lieutenant John "Johnny" Hart, Sergeant Allison "Al" Langworthy, and Beatrice "Betty" Connally, caught up in the turmoil and aftermath of the Second World War, as recounted in their family stories, memories, and personal letters from 1940 to 1948.
The complicated background of the three families frame their personal stories and place them into historical context. The multilingual and multicultural reality of late 19th and early 20th century Troy, New York, is exemplified in the joys and sorrows—the anxieties and guilt—experienced by Johnny, Al, and Betty, and puts a very human face on a time period often glorified by fiction writers and moviemakers.
But the War never really ended…
Título : All My Love, Johnny: Memories and Loss in Troy, New York
EAN : 9781370745616
Editorial : mapple
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