Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress - Softcover

Mary Edwards Wertsch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449907066 ISBN 13: 9780449907061

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1992

Synopsis

Examines the long-term psychological effects of growing up in a strictly regimented military family and how such an upbringing affects daughters and sons differently

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A comprehensive, well-written and moving study of the effects of military life on children--who 'serve' with no recognition or glory."--United Press International

"Gives the experience of a military childhood a weight many of us have never fully admitted, allowing our pain, finally, to be saluted alongside our pride."--The Atlantic

"I thought I was singular in all this, one of a kind. With this book, Mary Wertsch astonished me and introduced me to a secret family I did not know I had....This book is both a love letter and a troubled meditation on the way children are raised in military families."--Pat Conroy, author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides

"Wise and helpful."--Air Force Times

About the Author:

Mary Edwards Wertsch, a seasoned investigative reporter and writer, was raised in a career Army infantry family. By the time she was 18 she had lived in 20 different houses in three countries. Currently she lives in the Midwest in dwelling no. 43 with her husband and two sons, and continues to write and lecture about the military brat cultural identity she has been credited with identifying.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0449907066
• ISBN 13: 9780449907061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452