World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family's home in Janesville, Wisconsin.

When we were on a No Girls Allowed! holiday, my daddy's heart stopped beating and I had to find help all by myself. He was very badly broken. Not even the ambul

"A young boy learns to cope with the death of his father, who was serving in the Armed Forces and did not return from Iraq."--Page preceding title page.

Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War. Summer 1945. Britain was i

As a young boy waits for his father to come home from a trip, his family creates rituals to stay connexted and to make the separation easier.