Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life by Hendrickson, Paul
Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life by Hendrickson, Paul

Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life

From the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime...
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Author: Paul Hendrickson
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Language: English
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Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life by Hendrickson, Paul

Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life

$82.83
Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life by Hendrickson, Paul

Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life

$82.83
Author: Paul Hendrickson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice

In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author's father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents, one of the countless numbers of American family members shouldering the burden of being left behind.

Joe Paul, the son of a Depression-poor Kentucky sharecropper, was fresh out of high school in 1937 when he enlisted in mechanic school in the peacetime Army Air Corps. Eventually, he was able to qualify for flight school. After marriage, and with the war on, the young officer and his bride crisscrossed the country, airfield to airfield, base to base: Santa Ana, Yuma, Kissimmee, Bakersfield, Orlando, La Junta, Fresno. He volunteered for night fighters and the newly arrived and almost mythic Black Widow. A world away, the carnage continued. As Paul Hendrickson tracks his parents' journey, together and separate, both stateside and overseas, he creates a vivid portrait of a hard-to-know father whose time in the war, he comes to understand, was something truly heroic, but never without its hidden and unhidden psychic costs.

Bringing to life an iconic moment of American history, and the tragedy of all wars, Fighting the Night is an intense and powerful story of violence and love, forgiveness and loss. And it is a tribute to those who got plunged into service, in the best years of their lives, and the sacrifices they and their loved ones made, then and thereafter.

Author: Paul Hendrickson
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780593321133


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2023 pg. 12
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