What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed by Melillo, Michael D.
What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed by Melillo, Michael D.

What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed

After fifty years of silence, a soldier finally spoke.What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival,...
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Author: Michael D. Melillo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed by Melillo, Michael D.

What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed

$58.78
What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed by Melillo, Michael D.

What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed

$58.78
Author: Michael D. Melillo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

After fifty years of silence, a soldier finally spoke.

What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed is a work of narrative nonfiction that traces the wartime experience of Joseph Paul "Pop" Janscak, a World War II infantryman whose survival came at a cost he carried quietly for the rest of his life. Through training fields, frozen marches, captivity, and return, his story unfolds as a tale of endurance and what it means to live through war and then learn how to live afterward.

Told through scenes shaped by memory, testimony, and careful listening, this book honors the men who did not speak easily about what they saw, what they lost, and what stayed with them long after the guns went quiet.

This is not a story about winning a war. It is a story about what survival asks of a man.



Author: Michael D. Melillo
Publisher: Fernling Press
Published: 06/09/2026
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781971303055
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