Transition: Soldier to Aerospace Engineer 1946 to 1954

ISBN-13: 9781484005361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 178 str.

Gerald Factor

Opis

Transition from Soldier to Aerospace Engineer 1946 to 1954 is Author Gerald Factor's third memoir in his series of four that charts his life trajectory from a Great Depression childhood to a successful engineering manager. Candid and compelling, this evocative collection recalls a time in the country when many individuals were charged with rising above the adversity of WWII and the Korean War as well as considerable economic challenges, in order to ultimately forge meaningful professional and family lives. In Transition Factor serves up his unvarnished take on former days, offering narration on his evolving life after having been discharged from his duties as a rifleman in the Army during WWII in France and Germany. The account covers his separation from the Army in January of 1946; his homecoming to a changing country; marriage and fatherhood, work and college; as well as his thoughts about leaving the East Coast in 1954. Transition also takes on his struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the author's complex relationship and encounters with his estranged father. With affecting honesty and vivid descriptions, Factor's account of his ascension from enlisted man to accomplished engineer offers an inspiring chronicle of a changed man in profoundly changing times.