From the Paterson Station
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0738858684
ISBN 13
9780738858685
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
328
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Description
This is the story of a boy abandoned in 1926 at the age of four in industrial Paterson, New Jersey, and subsequently raised by a warm extended Irish Catholic family during the Great Depression. We meet the people-many of them characters in their own right-who influenced Doug's early life including the nuns of St. Joe's School. Winning a pre-war appointment to West Point, he graduates with the D-Day Class of 1944 and serves in the European War as an artillery lieutenant in one of Patton's divisions. Here we meet the men of the GI Generation with whom he fought the war and served in the early occupation of Germany. The story ends in the summer of 1947 as the Cold War gets underway. - from Amzon
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1