Ebook: The house of memory: reflections on youth and war

"An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit."--Provided by publisher.;Part I. Youth -- Sailing against the tide -- Depression Brooklyn -- All will be well -- I'm in the Navy now -- Part 2. War -- Preparing for war -- Shipping out -- Lost horizon -- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain -- The rivers of paradise -- The ungovernable sea -- Part 3. Memory -- Waves washing the sand.