A review by indyreadrosa
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War, by Dale Maharidge

4.0

This is both a memoir of a son trying to understand his father and the stories of number of marines who were thrown into war and were left to deal with the repercussions. Both sections are well written. The chapters on the Marines read like a New Yorker profile. The author had to deal with the fall out from the war and his discovery of the battles his father fought can be emotional but the writing is good enough that the emotion feels earned. Personally I knew only the barest of outlines of the War in the Pacific and this book has set me off on a WWII memoir reading odyssey. I highly recommend the book.