Old Man in a Baseball Cap

by Rochlin, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780060194260
• ISBN10: 006019426X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-06
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Conceived in a Storytelling seminar given by Spalding Gray, Old Man in a Baseball Cap is the true story of 74-year-old Fred Rochlin's experiences in World War II. It was his first time away from home and he was chosen as a navigator because he was Jewish -- "a navigator is just a flying accountant." Written with self-effacing humor and gritty details that relay the immediacy of the moment, Old Man in a Baseball Cap recounts the story of an ordinary man Rut into extraordinary circumstances. Whether he's delivering a baby by Cesarean section hours before ordered to obliterate a Hungarian village, or parachuting from his plane in the middle of Yugoslavia and then walking 400 kilometers to safety with his amorous guide Marushka, Rochlin's tales are exciting, intensely powerful, and all true. A wonderful story that transcends one young soldier's life and taps into the universal within us all, Old Man in a Baseball Cap is the perfect gift book for Father's Day and for the holidays.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
The Stories We Tell	ix
Milk Run To Genoa	1	(14)
Rockets	15	(24)
Lieutenant Dan Callahan	39	(20)
Officer of The Day	59	(12)
Major Bradley Duncan Belchore III	71	(18)
Old Man In A Baseball Cap	89	(24)
The Colonel	113	(16)
My Strong Feelings of Family	129	(16)
About Accurate Recall	145