I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Le. Mansfield**

Rowman & Littlefield

I Will Tell No War StoriesWhat Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II\nAuthor(s): Howard Mansfield\nFormat: Board book\nPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield, United States\nImprint: The Lyons Press\nISBN-13: 9781493081080, 978-1493081080\nSynopsis\nWhen I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of my\n\nfathers time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule with him not to\n\ntalk about what hed seen at war. Youre not getting any war stories from me, hed say.\n\nCleaning up the old family house the year before he died, I was surprised to find a short\n\ndiary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. I\n\nbegan to fill in the details, and to be surprised again, this time by a history I thought I\n\nknew.\n\nI Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in our family and in a society\n\nthat has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war. Some part of that forgetting\n\nwas necessa.