TY - BOOK AU - Franks,Lucinda TI - My father's secret war: a memoir SN - 140135226X (alk. paper) AV - D810.S8 F734 2007 U1 - 940.548673092B 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Miramax Books/Hyperion KW - Franks, Lucinda. KW - Franks, Thomas Edward. KW - Fathers and daughters KW - United States KW - Spies KW - Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Military intelligence N1 - American Window N2 - In this memoir, journalist Lucinda Franks describes her quest to learn to know her father. During World War II Thomas Franks served as spy in the Third Reich. In 1945 he was among the first soldiers into Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald near the town of Gotha, Germany. As Tom's dementia progresses, Lucinda gathers fragments of his memories in order to understand her father and his secrets ER -