{"product_id":"i-will-tell-no-war-stories","title":"I Will Tell No War Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of my\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efather’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule with him not to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etalk about what he’d seen at war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning up the old family house the year before he died, I was surprised to find a short\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebegan to fill in the details, and to be surprised again, this time by a history I thought I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in our family and in a society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war. Some part of that forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas necessary for the veterans, otherwise how could they come home, how could they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efind peace?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Will Tell No War Stories is, finally, about learning to live with history, a theme I have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexplored in some of my earlier books like In the Memory House and The Same Ax,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwice. The New York Times called In the Memory House a “wise and beautiful book.” In\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanother review, the Times said, “The Same Ax, Twice is filled with insight and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeloquence… a memorable, readable, brilliant book on an important subject. It is a book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efilled with quotable wisdom.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226508513624,"sku":"9781493081080","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781493081080.jpg?v=1769059814","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/i-will-tell-no-war-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}