From the Paterson Station [Hardcover]

Douglas Kinnard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000

This is the story of a boy abandoned in 1926 at the age of four in industrial Paterson, New Jersey, and subsequently raised by a warm extended Irish Catholic family during the Great Depression. We meet the people-many of them characters in their own right-who influenced Doug's early life including the nuns of St. Joe's School. Winning a pre-war appointment to West Point, he graduates with the D-Day Class of 1944 and serves in the European War as an artillery lieutenant in one of Patton's divisions. Here we meet the men of the GI Generation with whom he fought the war and served in the early occupation of Germany. The story ends in the summer of 1947 as the Cold War gets underway.

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About the Author

Douglas Kinnard graduated from West Point in the D-Day Class of 1944 and served in combat in World War II, the Korean War, and twice in Vietnam-the latter time as a Brigadier General. He retired in 1970 to become a professor-scholar, and after receiving the Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 1973 became a member of the Political Science Faculty at the University of Vermont. While there, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as the only civilian Chief of Military History, U.S. Army. Since becoming Emeritus Professor at Vermont he has been a Visiting Professor at a number of universities, and is currently at work on his seventh book. He is also serving as a Commissioner on the American Battle Monuments Commission, having been appointed by President Clinton.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738858684
• ISBN-13: 978-0738858685
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,288,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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