Bringing Mulligan Home, Dale Maharidge
Bringing Mulligan Home, Dale Maharidge
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Bringing Mulligan Home
The Other Side of the Good War

Author: Dale Maharidge

Narrator: Pete Larkin

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2013

Synopsis

Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he’d served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement workshop.

After Steve Maharidge’s death, his son Dale, now an adult, began a twelve-year quest to understand his father’s preoccupation with the photo. What had happened during the battle for Okinawa, and why had his father remained silent about his experiences and the man in the picture, Herman Mulligan? In his search for answers, Maharidge sought out the survivors of Love Company, many of whom had never before spoken so openly and emotionally about what they saw and experienced on Okinawa.

In Bringing Mulligan Home, Maharidge delivers an affecting narrative of war and its aftermath, of fathers and sons, with lessons for the children whose parents are returning from war today.

About Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them, and twelve other books. Among them is Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song "Youngstown." His most recent nonfiction book is Fucked at Birth, and his novel Burn Coast was published in 2022. He has written for the Nation, Smithsonian, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan

One might argue that this is among the finest books to treat of the combat experience. I think that it is up there with Paul Fussell. But I'd leave that to those who have seen combat to say. Only they can really judge. It conveys the horror, and the disjointed experiences of those who are reduced to......more

Goodreads review by Ronald

This is one man's journey to honor his father's memory and that of his father's friend lost on a battlefield in the Pacific. At the same time the author is attempting to find the reasons for his father's periods of rage and his inability to communicate with his family, what he had witnessed on those......more

Goodreads review by Christine

This book should not be missed by anyone who knows anyone at war or who has been to war, who has parents of a certain age, who lived through the last half of the twentieth century, or who has ever even heard of WWII. Besides being an affecting story of a veteran's family, it contains a mystery and fo......more

Goodreads review by Anthony

To be frank, I am a WW2 nut. I watch any tv program or movie concerning it. When I received this book in the mail for winning a Goodreads sweepstakes, I was thrilled. It's a collection of Love Company veterans memories of the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, on Okinawa. The author researched it and wrote......more

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