{"product_id":"busters-book-donald-junkins-9781475944433","title":"Buster's Book: Family Voices to and from the Front, Wwi, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003eProviding insight in a family's history against the backdrop of major world wars, Buster's Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this memoir, author \u003cb\u003eDonald Junkins\u003c\/b\u003e has compiled letters, diaries, interviews, recollections, and photographs of the family's participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuster's Book\u003c\/i\u003e reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Junkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475944438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475944433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.29d","brand":"Donald Junkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579754037503,"sku":"9781475944433","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1deae128-1c00-45d7-ae5e-553e5b501267.jpg?v=1763876415","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/busters-book-donald-junkins-9781475944433","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}