01940cam a2200289 i 4500 1847019951 TxAuBib 20250107120000.0 240401s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798888451663 hardcover $28.99 TxAuBib rda Ellis, Becky, author. Little avalanches : a memoir / Becky Ellis. New York : Regalo Press, [2024] ©2024. 236 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her father's PTSD, she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won't talk about being a Timberwolf, a unit of specially trained night fighters that went into combat first and experienced a 300 percent casualty rate. He returns home with thirteen medals, including a silver star, and becomes a doctor and well-respected member of the community, but is haunted by his past. Seeing only his explosive and often dangerous personality, Becky distances herself from the man she wants to love. Yet on the eve of his nintieth birthday, when Becky looks at the vulnerable man he's become, something shifts and she asks about the war. He breaks seventy years of silence, offering an unfiltered account of war without glory and revealing the extent of the trauma he's endured. 20250122. Ellis, Becky. United States Army Infantry Division, 104th. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Autobiographies.