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Rentz, Ralph M.; Hrisko, Peter

 
9780870136726: They Can't Take That Away From Me: The Odyssey of an American POW
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ISBN 10: 0870136720 ISBN 13: 9780870136726
Editorial: Michigan State University Press, 2003

Sinopsis

Ralph Rentz grew up in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, with one dream: to be a professional musician. Playing clarinet, saxophone, and flute in 1930s big bands, Rentz wanted no part of the looming shadow of war. At age twenty- one, he joined the National Guard to avoid being drafted. Ten days later, he was called up for active duty. Fearful of friendly fire, Rentz then signed up with the Army Air Corps, where he trained to be a radio operator. While on a secret mission in the Pacific, Rentz’s B- 17 was shot down over Malang, Java, where he and the rest of the crew became Japanese POWs. Surviving dysentery, pleurisy, dry beri-beri, tuberculosis, and slave labor, Rentz held on to his dreams of returning to music and waited for a U.S. invasion that never came.
They Can't Take That Away From Me recounts not only Rentz’s devastating three-and-a-half years of captivity, but also his involvement in a secret government mission that has never been revealed. Rich with the music of his youth, the book conjures up the losses, longing, sacrifices, and stolen dreams of Rentz’s imprisonment and his return to the United States. Bittersweet and evocative, They Can’t Take That Away From Me explores the irony of human resilience amidst the atrocity of war, and in that survival the unconquerable loss of a man’s most cherished dream.

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Ralph M. Rentz lives in Fayetteville, Georgia, with his wife, Ellie. Ralph still enjoys listening to big band music; and at 85, he has already started writing another book.



Peter Hrisko was a screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles, California. He was an alumnus of Michigan State University (1987), a former MSU football player and back-up punter. He was a researcher for the documentary In the Line of Fire: Behind the Scenes with the Secret Service. Peter's first book, They Can't Take That Away From Me, The Odyssey of an American POW was published in 2003. He died on June 29, 2004, at the age of 39.

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Editorial
Michigan State University Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0870136720
ISBN 13 
9780870136726
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
236
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