{"title":"Jeffrey Badger","description":"\u003cp\u003eJEFFREY BADGER is the author of \u003cem\u003eFinding Granddad’s War\u003c\/em\u003e, in which he tracked down and interviewed veterans from his grandfather’s World War II unit, the 978th Engineer Maintenance Company, as well as civilians in France, the Netherlands, and Germany who befriended them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBadger won the Half Price Books Say Goodnight to Illiteracy children’s story contest. He holds degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Pennsylvania State University, and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he’s not writing, Badger draws on experience gained living in six states and five countries, having grown up in Dublin, California, Ogden, Utah, and Uvalde, Texas. \u003cem\u003eFinding Granddad’s War\u003c\/em\u003e is used as supplementary reading in American History courses at several universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey lives in San Antonio, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Badger’s books are published by Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"finding-granddads-war","title":"Finding Granddad's War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fascinating, intimate and honest portrayal of the men of The Greatest Generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo discover the grandfather he never knew, Jeff Badger interviewed 32 elderly Army-engineer veterans from his granddad's unit, including his four best buddies. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eTheir firsthand accounts were nothing like what he'd read in the popular histories. There were stories of war, but there were also stories of the painful, the funny and the absurd: breaking into a brothel in France, drinking wine and chasing girls in Holland, robbing a bank. The author then went to Holland, France and Germany and interviewed the civilians who befriended them during the war.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinding Granddad's War\u003c\/em\u003e weaves a rare and intimate portrait of The Greatest Generation -- warts and all -- as the GIs wanted their stories to be told. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn Part II the author gives instructions on researching your own family member's war story.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1593313217\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781593313210\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Badger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42329270747352,"sku":"9781593313210","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781593313210_FChigh_mockup_v2_1641334409_1bc97f99-74b7-4b2f-b549-6e2fb60707ab.jpg?v=1790982165"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-jeffrey-badger.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}