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The House of Memory: Reflections on Youth and War - Freely, John
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An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit John Freely's voice is still astonishingly youthful, full of wonder, humor, and gratitude, as he remembers his fully lived life. Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants, he went to Ireland with his mother when he was five, where he spent his young childhood on his ...

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The House of Memory: Reflections on Youth and War 2018, Knopf Publishing Group

ISBN-13: 9781101974681

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The House of Memory: Reflections on Youth and War 2017, Knopf Publishing Group

ISBN-13: 9780451494702

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