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Dadland / Keggie Carew.
A family memoir about the author's race to document her father's story as a World War II paratrooper before his mind succumbed to dementia relates how he overcame formidable obstacles and maverick impulses to join an elite special ops unit that was a first collaboration between the American and British Secret Services.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802125149
- ISBN: 080212514X
- Physical Description: 415 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House"--Back of title page. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-407). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Dad is a spy and Mum is a Pakistani -- Surprise, kill and vanish -- Your father is a bastard -- The dense mixed what? -- The talented Mr. Ripley -- The last tango -- Ground control -- To Major Tom -- But, Daddy, that's not your name. |
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Subject: | Carew, Tom (Thomas Arthur) Carew, Keggie. Carew, Tom (Thomas Arthur) > Mental health. Spies > Great Britain > Biography. Dementia > Patients > Biography. |