Daddypaul and the Yoyo War Paul Three Wars Book 2 edition by Karl Larew Literature Fiction eBooks
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A sequel to Paul, Betty, and Pearl (Volume I of the trilogy, Paul's Three Wars), this volume takes the Van Vliet family through the late 1940s, the Korean War, and the McCarthy Era. Paul, Betty, and Rosalie must deal with child molestation, post-partum depression, bureaucratic infighting in the Pentagon, Paul's service in combat in Korea, and a false accusation of pro-communist behavior during the witch-hunt era, from 1951 through 1954.
Daddypaul and the Yoyo War Paul Three Wars Book 2 edition by Karl Larew Literature Fiction eBooks
If you’re a history buff then you will enjoy reading this amazing novel. I missed out on the first novel, but plan to go back so I can be introduced to this amazing family properly. The story line follows the family through some of the major events in American history, particularly the Korean War. The descriptions in this novel will have you feeling as if you are living through history with the family. It is amazing to see how quickly things changed and what it would have been like for a family living through these times. I enjoyed the characters and felt as if I were dealing with their problems right alongside them. The author has certainly put his years of teaching history into this novel as you will find the events are all accurate. This is a great book to follow if you’d like to know more about U.S history from the perspective of a (fictional) family making it through the times.Product details
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Daddypaul and the Yoyo War Paul Three Wars Book 2 edition by Karl Larew Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It is June 1946. Major Paul Van Vliet turns his 1940 maroon Buick Super sedan into Gunter Army Air Field grounds, just outside Montgomery, Alabama, where he is to teach at the AAF Communications Division. He is welcomed by his superior, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Wentz, who takes him to see the house Paul will occupy with his new bride, Betty, and stepdaughter, 11-year-old Rosalie.
Thus, Karl Larew introduces Part II of his trilogy, Paul's Three Wars. In this second installment, Daddypaul and the Yo-Yo War, Larew documents the life of Paul over almost a decade, as he begins a new stage of his life.
Paul eagerly meets the train bringing Betty and Rosalie to their new home. There is an abundance of love in this new family; Betty and Paul exchange a romantic hello, and Rosie excitedly greets her "Daddypaul!" Not long after the family is settled in, young Rosie is inspired by a concert violinist's performance of Robert Schumann's "Violin Concerto in D Minor" to begin violin lessons. But the thrill of learning to play under the tutelage of a Hungarian violinist soon sours. Pre-teen Rosalie must somehow find the courage to tell her family that her violin teacher has molested her. When she does, unforeseen consequences arise and Rosalie is distraught.
A year later life is again changing for Paul and his family as they move to Falls Church, Virginia so Paul can work at the Pentagon. They also soon welcome a son, Daniel Evan Van Vliet. A healthy mother and son come home from Walter Reed Hospital, but Betty, usually so resilient, falls into post-partum depression. Rosalie, wise beyond her years, one day says, "Daddypaul, I think it's time Mom talked to a psychiatrist."
Soon, it's Paul's turn to worry as a creeping fear settles into him that his career might have been jeopardized by the self-serving, gossipy tongue of his former second in command, Major Don Goffe. The worry is soon relieved, but this is not to be the last time that Major Don Goffe appears in Paul's life.
In spring 1949, the newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Van Vliet is assigned to temporary duty in South Korea to assess the ROK army's communication needs in the "U.N. Police Action" against North Korea and the capability of the U.S. Army Signal Corps to meet them. He returns home dismayed by the paucity of U.S. communication equipment and personnel.
North Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel in the spring of 1950 and the "Police Action" intensifies. President Truman orders General MacArthur to send in 8th Army forces from Tokyo. The Van Vliets' family life is interrupted when Paul is permanently assigned to the Signal Corps in Korea.
Paul's job is to "make sense out of the VHF relay radio system...banking radio waves off mountains and bending them around hilltops." But he finds himself in actual combat at one relay station, attacked by North Koreans in the middle of the night. "Aim low, squeeze slow," he instructs a young signalman-turned-rifleman. After an injury involving a mine, Paul is sent to Tokyo to recover, and once he has he is assigned to a desk job in Tokyo, only to find that his nemesis, Major Goffe, is again his second in command. Goffe again seeks to jeopardize Paul's career. Paul learns from a retired Col. Mummert, now working for the Senate Armed Services Committee investigating how Senator Joseph McCarthy is getting military information to support his anti-communist witch hunt, that Goffe is one of McCarthy's snitches.
Larew expertly blends fact with fiction, using "letters" between Betty and Paul to keep us abreast of personal events in Falls Church and Pusan, Korea. The well informed and well written narration of historical events and figures blends well with the fictional accounts of Paul's activity in the Signal Corps. The ROK army's communication needs in the "U.N. Police Action" against North Korea and the capability of the U.S. Army Signal Corps to meet them.
What a "yo-yo" war!--UN troops pushed south to the Pusan perimeter, North Koreans routed and driven north almost to the Chinese border, UN forces chased south again, North Korean/Chinese troops forced north beyond the 38th Parallel. The outspoken General MacArthur's 52-year career ends when he is relieved of his duties by President Truman, and General Ridgway is commanding the 8th Army when Paul leaves for home in mid-summer 1951, returning to the Pentagon as Executive Officer of the Army Communications Service Division.
Meanwhile, in Falls Church, Rosalie, a high school junior, beautiful with satiny red hair, continues her meteoric rise as a violinist, though her undivided attention to music leads to a slightly problematic social life. Betty has a full schedule of piano students and still makes time for Army wives activities and Danny is thrilled to have his dad home.
Military and political history buffs, particularly military family members, and even romance lovers will find Karl Larew's novels engaging reads. Karl Larew introduces Part II of his trilogy, Paul's Three Wars, which follows "Paul, Betty, and Pearl," a historical novel set in the WWII era, beginning at Pearl Harbor. Larew's personal experience, as the son of Brigadier General Walter B. Larew (1904-1973), greatly enhances the accuracy of his description of military life as well as the military and political history of WWII and beyond in this American family saga.
Daddypaul and the Yo Yo War is the middle novel of a trilogy covering three wars. `Novel' does not quite describe these books. Here is the soft underbelly, the hidden little details of ground-level history dressed up by the story of a fictitious family, written in an energetic, straight-ahead, tell-it-like-it-is style by a historian who knows what he's talking about.
The Yo Yo war is, of course, Korea. This novel exposes and explains for me the Korean conflict as I had never before seen it or understood it. But the war per se does not occupy center stage. Here Larew takes a nostalgic look back at life in the U.S. military, following his fictional Van Vliet family from a personal and professional perspective, displaying the universal military experience as it affects the lives of military families.
I enjoyed the book, but felt it was unfinished. I have not yet read the third of the trilogy, but feel that 'Yo Yo War' may be a bridge between the earlier novel, "Paul, Betty and Pearl" and the last of the trilogy, "Gran'paul's Family".
More to come...
‘DaddyPaul and the Yo Yo War’ – the second of a trilogy - started out as a rather mild read for me, having not read the first book of this series. The background is set in the 1940’s and is about a fictional American military family – Major Paul Vliet, his wife and children – during the times of the Korean War.
There is some history of how things were then in America and the politics within the military - splitting the Army from the Navy. Apparently too, the practice of psychiatry was just coming into its own and society had its suspicion of this new type of “medicine”.
The pace of this Part II book is steady and focuses alot on the strength of family and maintaining good communications all round. Because it is written for a past era, the language and the behavior of the characters I find to be rather prim. This, I think, properly matches how times were then.
If you’re a history buff then you will enjoy reading this amazing novel. I missed out on the first novel, but plan to go back so I can be introduced to this amazing family properly. The story line follows the family through some of the major events in American history, particularly the Korean War. The descriptions in this novel will have you feeling as if you are living through history with the family. It is amazing to see how quickly things changed and what it would have been like for a family living through these times. I enjoyed the characters and felt as if I were dealing with their problems right alongside them. The author has certainly put his years of teaching history into this novel as you will find the events are all accurate. This is a great book to follow if you’d like to know more about U.S history from the perspective of a (fictional) family making it through the times.
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