Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation justly celebrated the heroic men and women who came of age during the Second World War. Tom Mathews's Our Fathers' War records the tragic cost of that heroism, the unspoken aftermath of that war: "If you were a civilian, you might actually believe that World War II was over; if you had seen combat, it would never be over: you would carry it for the rest of your life, wired into your soul and central nervous system." Beginning with his difficult relationship with his war hero father, Mathews recounts ten dramatic father-son tales of veterans who were metaphorically missing in action. The fathers include a combat infantryman whose life was saved by the fabled Audie Murphy and a black member of the Tuskegee Airmen Corps. This is the sobering story of the darkness that followed the Band of Brothers home.