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Joe's War
Annette Kobak
其他書名
My Father Decoded
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007-12-18
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralFamily & Relationships / Parenting / Fatherhood
ISBN03074264759780307426475
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YG6NA5mfdMoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Acclaimed biographer Annette Kobak turns her attention to her own family as she sets out to uncover her father's never-discussed past. A mysterious and conspicuously silent figure in Annette's life for some forty-five years, Joe Kobak at last shared with his daughter his harrowing experiences during World War II, which she has turned into a riveting work of history and memory.

Born on the border of Poland and Czechoslovakia, Joe Kobak fled the Nazis, suffered imprisonment by the Russians, then joined Polish forces fighting in France. Later he escaped to London where he spent the duration of the war intercepting Soviet messages. In Joe's War, his daughter captures Joe Kobak's story in his own words, and interweaves it with her own search for a life story she can make sense of. Embarking upon a challenging and poignant journey of her own–retracing her father's footsteps across a barren and unfamiliar Ukraine–the author sheds light on the dark corners of her family history and on some of the darker aspects of the war, bringing history to life in unexpected ways.