| 2Books | 506Pages | 113+Books authored | 54+Ghostwritten |
TL;DR: Lived is two memoirs. Behind the Wire is the story of my grandfather, Frank Hoeffer II, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor in 1942 who spent more than three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. My Life in Crazytown covers nineteen years in a house where the rules changed daily, and what those years built.
Two memoirs, one inherited and one first-hand
Frank Hoeffer II survived three and a half years as a prisoner of war and wrote it down afterward. That journal became a book. The other is nineteen years in a house where the rules changed daily, and what those years built.
Neither is a redemption story. Both are accounts.
| Behind the Wire | My Life in Crazytown | |
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| Whose story | Frank Hoeffer II, the author’s grandfather | The author’s own |
| What it covers | A Navy cook captured at Corregidor in 1942 | Nineteen years in a house where the rules changed daily |
| Span | Three years and four months as a Japanese POW | Nineteen years of childhood |
| Source | His journal, written down afterward | First-hand memory |
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