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Fighting two foes: the Fuehrer and his father

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960703
Author:Robert Taylor, Globe Correspondent

MY TWO WARS By Moritz Thomsen Steerforth Press, 317 pp., $25

The late Moritz Thomsen's "My Two Wars" stands directly in the tradition of such father-hating books as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh." It is also a portrayal of the World War II air war over Germany in a class with Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." The themes of personal trauma and aerial carnage don't really meld, but all the same, both are compelling and add up to a remarkable memoir.

Completed in 1991 shortly before the author's death in Guayaquil, Ecuador, "My Two Wars" has the raw power of experience pondered yet unresolved ...

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