Tell my sons : a father's last letters /
"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him--about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration"--Dust jacket flap. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published by Beaver's Pond Press, Inc., in 2012 in slightly different form"--Title page verso. "Each of these titles comes from a farewell speech General Douglas Macarthur delivered in 1962 to the corps of cadets at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point."---page xvii. |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780345549440 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0345549449 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781592985753 (ebk.) 1592985750 (ebk.) |