Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed

What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed

Melillo, Michael D.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1971303046
ISBN13: 9781971303048
Publisher: Fernling Press
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF SILENCE, A SOLDIER FINALLY SPOKE.

What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed is a work of narrative nonfiction that traces the wartime experience of Joseph Paul Pop Janscak, a World War II infantryman whose survival came at a cost he carried quietly for the rest of his life. Through training fields, frozen marches, captivity, and return, his story unfolds as a tale of endurance and what it means to live through war and then learn how to live afterward. Told through scenes shaped by memory, testimony, and carful listening, this book honors the men who did not speak easily about what they saw, what they lost, and what stayed with them long after the guns went quiet. This is not a story about winning a war. It is a story about what survival asks of a man.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Melillo, Michael D.

View All

Also in

General World History

View All