* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 * My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's j

Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in his family and in the world, and endure the brutal military training his father puts him through, a

* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 * My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's j

The other two, Guadalcanal and Peleliu, are legendary.

The author draws on her father's account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naive