Tilly's War
Synopsis
The main character in this book, a true, real life person, was an unassuming man brought up in a large, working class family. His life would begin in 1918 and he and his family would survive the depression on near poverty wages. He would go on to serve as a decorated airman in World War Two and come home to restart his life suffering from PTSD. With that, life would deal him many adversities and challenges, many of them self-inflicted, but each time he would overcome. He would struggle with the effects of combat on civilian life and would use alcohol to substitute for counseling much to his dismay. Tilly as he was called by his wartime air crew, returned home and went back to work to put the war behind him and get on with life.
He would have a family of his own, raising three children on near poverty wages and suffered from alcoholism and depression most of his life while his family suffered the effects of life’s challenges. Much later in life, he began talking about his wartime experiences and this would help him to readjust to life as he knew it. However, returning to alcohol would bring him and his family hardships that would be difficult to reconcile.
- Derechos de autor:
- 2018 Roy E. Staggs
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781595558374
- Publisher:
- Elm Hill
- Date of Addition:
- 2018-10-29T18:24:51Z
- Idioma:
- English
- Categorías:
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.