Tell My Sons
A Father's Last Letters
New York : Ballantine Books, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Weber, Mark M.
United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
Minnesota. Army National Guard -- Biography.
Conduct of life.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Minnesota -- Biography.
Weber, Mark M.
United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
Minnesota. Army National Guard -- Biography.
Conduct of life.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Minnesota -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780345549440 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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LITERATURE Letters Web | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Letters Web | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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"Originally published by Beaver's Pond Press, Inc., in 2012 in slightly different form"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.