Lees explores the persistent tension between ethnicity and national security by focusing on the Yugoslav-American community during World War II
surrendered in one of the worst defeats in U
eight days later he ran across an oil tanker and hitched a ride south
preceded by an account of his life
and launched an intertribal campaign to resist the Anglo-American forces
Return of the Lost Son Paul C. Gorski Lees explores the persistent tensionA son searches for his father, only to grow uncomfortable and even miserable with what he exhumes. Where, he asks, are the limits of forgiveness? Is failure a badge of honor? Are we free to share the secrets of the dead? In Return of the Lost Son, a vivid, tightly paced memoir, Christopher Gonzales attempts to understand a man who, due to early onset Alzheimer's, was unable to share his own memories. At the outset of his exploration, Gonzales hopes to