No Ordinary Solider: My Father's Two Wars

Finalist 2018 International Book AwardsA young man from a gritty Pennsylvania mill town enlists in the Army Air Corps and heads for Hawaii the Paradise of the Pacific. There he and his buddies defend Oahu while it explodes and burns in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the war surges his bomber squardron ships out to prmitive Pacific outposts. Amid air raids stifling heat and outbreaks of tropical disease he clings to sanity through the letters he and his wife share letters found years later saved in an attic. His daughter Hunted by his terrifying rages decades after his death his daughter delves into the letters for clues to his turmoil. The letters lead her to discover a shocking family secret not only fulfilling her quest but also revealing a story of war love and forgiveness.