The war came home with him : a daughter's memoir
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Published
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015].
ISBN
9780816698776, 0816698775
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Cicero Public Library - Stacks | 951.9042 MAD | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Boysen, Doc, -- 1923-2002.
Children of veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-prisoners of war -- United States -- Psychology.
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons, North Korean.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Madison, Catherine, -- 1949- -- Childhood and youth.
United States. -- Army. -- Medical Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
Veterans -- Family relationships -- United States.
Boysen, Doc, -- 1923-2002.
Children of veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-prisoners of war -- United States -- Psychology.
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons, North Korean.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Madison, Catherine, -- 1949- -- Childhood and youth.
United States. -- Army. -- Medical Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
Veterans -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Published
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780816698776, 0816698775
Notes
Description
"During his years as a POW in North Korea, 'Doc' Boysen endured hardships he never intended to pass along, especially to his family. Men who refused to eat starved; his children would clean their plates. Men who were weak died; his children would develop character. They would also learn to fear their father, the hero. In a memoir at once harrowing and painfully poignant, Catherine Madison tells the stories of two survivors of one man's war: a father who withstood a prison camp's unspeakable inhumanity and a daughter who withstood the residual cruelty that came home with him. Doc Boysen died fifty years after his ordeal, his POW experience concealed to the end in a hidden cache of documents. In The War Came Home with Him, Madison pieces together the horrible tale these papers told--of a young captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps captured in July 1950, beaten and forced to march without shoes or coat on icy trails through mountains to camps where North Korean and Chinese captors held him for more than three years. As the truth about her father's past unfolds, Madison returns to a childhood troubled by his secret torment to consider, in a new light, the telling moments in their complex relationship. Beginning at her father's deathbed, with all her questions still unspoken, and ending with their final conversation, Madison's dual memoir offers a powerful, intimate perspective on the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a wounded soldier brings his war home"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Madison, C. (2015). The war came home with him: a daughter's memoir . University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Madison, Catherine, 1949-. 2015. The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter's Memoir. University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Madison, Catherine, 1949-. The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter's Memoir University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Madison, Catherine. The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter's Memoir University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
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