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Original Title:	Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
ISBN:	0380814110 (ISBN13: 9780380814114)
Edition Language:	English

Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War

Bob Greene

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4 | 515 Users | 75 Reviews

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Title	:	Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
Author	:	Bob Greene
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	April 24th 2001 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published May 16th 2000)
Categories	:	History. Biography. Nonfiction. War. World War II

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When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before—thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world.

Greene's father—a soldier with an infantry division in World War II—often spoke of seeing the man around town. All but anonymous even in his own city, carefully maintaining his privacy, this man, Greene's father would point out to him, had "won the war." He was Paul Tibbets. At the age of twenty-nine, at the request of his country, Tibbets assembled a secret team of 1,800 American soldiers to carry out the single most violent act in the history of mankind. In 1945 Tibbets piloted a plane—which he called Enola Gay, after his mother—to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb.

On the morning after the last meal he ever ate with his father, Greene went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unlikely friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father's generation of soldiers, that he never fully understood before.

Duty is the story of three lives connected by history, proximity, and blood; indeed, it is many stories, intimate and achingly personal as well as deeply historic. In one soldier's memory of a mission that transformed the world—and in a son's last attempt to grasp his father's ingrained sense of honor and duty—lies a powerful tribute to the ordinary heroes of an extraordinary time in American life.

What Greene came away with is found history and found poetry—a profoundly moving work that offers a vividly new perspective on responsibility, empathy, and love. It is an exploration of and response to the concept of duty as it once was and always should be: quiet and from the heart. On every page you can hear the whisper of a generation and its children bidding each other farewell.

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Ratings: 4 From 515 Users | 75 Reviews

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A side of Paul Tibbets that I never knew....from the Enola Gay to a retired business man in Ohio helping the author understand the Greatest Generation.



This book has so much to offer that everyone should read it. It's about the relationship between a veteran of World War II and his son (the author Bob Greene) and at the same time it's about Paul Tibbets who piloted the Enola Gay to Hiroshima and dropped the atomic bomb. And it's about the relationship the author built with Paul Tibbets. It's a powerful look at what Tom Brokaw called The Greatest Generation. I'm so glad I read it.

I think that this could have been better. The layout was disjointed and at times it felt like the author was using General Tibbits as a therapist to work out his daddy issues. This book it touted as a story about a son his father and the man who stopped WWII. For me it was a son asking questions to the man who ended WWII that he wanted to ask his dad but never did. He assumed that his dad would have felt the same way about life and society as General Tibbits because they both participated in

A good story on Paul Tibbets but otherwise a disjointed read. Wanted more on Paul but had too much on Bob Greene's dad. It was like two stories in one book. Not trying to put down the book or Bob's dad but it was not what I expected on the pilot and mastermind of the bombing of Hiroshima. I wanted more on Paul and less on Bob's dad in this book.

InsightfulIf youre in to history, or curious about some of the men who flew the WWII Mission to Hiroshima, this book is wonderful. Additionally, the Author writes of the illness and eventual death of his father, also a WWII Veteran. The reader cant help but relate to the loss of a parent, and the insights gained along the way. Personally, I loved hearing from General Tibets, Jr, as well as from Thomas Ferebee, (the bombardier), and also Dutch Van Kirk, the Navigator (remember, no computers back

A book that helped me comprehend the necessity of dropping the atom bomb. It helped me see what that generation saw--it would end the war and although it would be a single moment of devastation it would save countless lives from drawn out devastation. If you take into account that the number of causalities for WWII reach upwards to 70 million and the bombings in Japan were around 250,000 I think we can better understand how more years at war would have been even more devastating than the atom