My Father's Secret War: A Memoir (Audiobook)

from bogopea

I found this "brillian and haunting memoir" a huge disappointment. Started off sucking me in as I was interested in the story and the author (a Pulitzer Prize winner) but did not like the way she told the story. Found it a bit self-serving and egocentric. Who cares if she and her father found lov...

from marshapetry

I really liked the "meaty" part of the story, about this guy's training and secret activities in WWII, but this darn book is written in a diary-like, free form, way and that was just terrible. So much extraneous chit chat between the good pieces: how her kid like animals, what they're eating for ...

from EdenSteffey

Interesting. I learned a few things about World War II.

from jaa9n

We read this book in our book group, and it got uneven responses. I thought the conclusion was cathartic and resolved a number of the threads that had developed throughout the memoir. Because of the effectiveness of the conclusion, I found the book as a whole satisfying and complete.

from bobbieharv

In the end, not a great book by a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Times. Seemed like she went overboard trying to make her father's secret life during the war more important than it was.