Goodbye, Liberty Belle

A Son's Search for His Father's War

Hardcover | 3 June 1993

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Merritt tells a moving and fascinating story that weaves together his father's adventures as a WWII bomber pilot and his own "unfinished business" of coming to terms with his father. He describes the last mission flown by his father during World War II as the pilot of a Liberator bomber named the Liberty Belle. Interwoven is the story of Merritt's quest to know his father.

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...a spellbinding story...a fascinating combination of wartime adventure and modern male sensibilities. It is wonderful reading for anyone interested in World War II, aviation history and the way past and present intersect in the minds of men. -- Landon Jones, Editor, PEOPLE Magazine Jim Merritt's clean prose and a flashbook style keeps his narrative flowing and the interest high. ...it's a good war story...done in sharp detail...history of a valuable, human kind. -- Samuel Hynes, author of Flights of Passage It's both a riveting suspense story and a moving account... -- Ann Waldron, author of The Reconstruction of a Racist This grandly complex tale is handled expertly by Merritt. Goodbye Liberty Belle is a war story, sort of. But it has enough facets to gleam brightly whichever way you look at it. -- Ann Waldron, author of The Reconstruction of a Racist Smithsonian Goodbye, Liberty Belle draws moving portraits of young men on both sides of the battlefield caught up in the tragedy of World War II. At the same time, it admirably recounts the political and military divisions in Yugoslavia, divisions that still haunt us today. -- Ann Waldron, author of The Reconstruction of a Racist People

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