Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War » (Reprint)

Award-winning journalist Bob Greene is the author of six New York Times bestsellers and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Op-Ed page.

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 and changed the history of the world. In 1945, Paul Tibbets had piloted a plane called Enola Gay to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal Greene ever ate with his father, he went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unexpected friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father's generation of soldiers, that he had never fully understood before.

About the Author:

Bob Greene is a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune and a columnist for Life magazine. His reports and commentary appear in more than 200 newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Japan. For nine years is "American Beat" was the lead column in Esquire, and as a broadcast journalist he has served as contributing correcpondent for "ABC News Nightline." His bestselling books include Be True to Your School, Good Morning, Merry Sunshine, and with his sister, D. G. Fulford, To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come. He lives in Chicago, IL.

Time - R. Z. Sheppard

In Duty, Bob Greene goes back to Columbus to see his dying father, a highly decorated World War II infantry officer. In an effort to understand his dad and the men of his generation, Greene persuades is hometown's most renowned veteran, Tibbets to finally break his silence. This book is remarkable not only for the scorching accounts of war but also because the book was written by a son desperate to know father who never talked about the most intense experiences of his lives.