I Will Tell No War Stories Quotes

“Compelling…. he delivers a gripping biography.... A father’s war experiences, unvarnished and illuminating.
-- Kirkus Reviews”
― Howard Mansfield, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II

“World War II defined a generation. Howard Mansfield’s book I Will Tell No War Stories tells a moving personal and family story, and, in doing so, tells the story of that generation and of America itself. This is a wonderful book.
— Robert Rodat, screenwriter, Saving Private Ryan”
― Howard Mansfield, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II

“In this moving and absorbing book, Howard Mansfield tries to understand his father’s steadfast, lifelong refusal to discuss his service as a 19-year-old B-24 machine gunner during World War 2. There was guilt, of both the survivor and the killer … but mostly there was the shadow of a terror so intense and sustained that not even a long life was enough to escape. To speak of it was to re-enter it. It was … an experience so overwhelming that words diminished it, as if trying to draw a frame around the infinite.”

— Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War”
― Howard Mansfield, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II