THE ROAD TO WAR

A riveting first-person account of a brave young man caught up in a cataclysmic World War.<p> This is the story of Captain William C. Frodsham Jr. who - shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry where he excelled in basic training became a junior officer and eventually led a combat boat team ashore on Omaha Beach.<p> Six days later in French hedgerow country and under withering German fire Frodsham was wounded and taken prisoner. He spent the next year as a German POW where he suffered great deprivation before finally being liberated by advancing Russian forces.<p> His training his courage his capture. The reader is taken for a first-person tour of the times at home and then tunneled into a vastly different world on the battlefield and in a German prisoner-of-war camp.<p> A truly remarkable story.