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In this particular moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, almost impassive man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II. Sworn to secrecy, he commenced revealing information on his wartime activities only in the last years of his life, as he became suffering from Alzheimer's. His exploits revealed a man of remarkable bravado: posing as a Nazi guard, slipping behind enemy lines to blow up ammunition dumps, and being flown to 1 of the first concentration camps liberated by the Allies to report on the atrocities found there. My Father's Secret War can be an intimate account of Franks coming to learn her own father after years of estrangement. Looking back at letters he previously written her mother in the first days of WWII, Franks glimpses a loving man full of warmth. But after the grimmest assignments of the war, his tone shifts, settling into an all-too-familiar distance. Franks learns about him, beyond the alcoholism and adultery, and involves know the man he once was. Her story is haunting, and beautifully told, even as the tragedy becomes clear: Franks finally involves know her father, but only as he's slipping further into his illness. My Father's Secret War is a triumph of love over secrets, and a tribute to the energy of family.
