A Changed Man: An Old Army Mystery

by Betty Eckgren

How would you feel, what would you do upon learning that the name you had grown up with was completely phony? It happened to me in middle age, with a husband and two grown-up children at the centre of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155212388X
• ISBN13: 9781552123881
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A relative

Not only was this a terrific story, but even more interesting, since it's my family she writes about! I remember my mother talking about the missing cousin. I started reading and didn't stop until I read the whole book. It's sad that I never got to meet her when she came to St. Louis. She is now deceased. I would have loved to have shown her pictures of her father as a boy, along with the rest of the family. I am listed in the back, Myra Rogers (Punky), the grandaughter of the Uncle, Ernest Friton.

It's a "history mystery"

The sign of a good book is when you are very sorry to turn the last page! I liked the fact this book combines an interesting mystery with a facts about the United States during the 1920s to 1960s. There are lots of fascinating old pictures to pour over.

A Changed Man, An Old Army Mystery

This is a fascinating true mystery! The historical comments are interesting as well. Much of the book reads like a "Little House" book, except for adults, and about a different time period. Humorous anecdotes add a personal touch. The author goes back and forth between the mystery of why her father changed his identity and left his family, to her mother's extensive memoirs of the period between 1919 and 1980, to things happening with her father's family in St. Louis, to world history events. The book is full of photographs stratecically placed. A recommended read!