The Sleeping Sword

Florence Henderson city-bredconcert pianist and Tom Martin raised on a farm in Pennsylvaniaa professional soldier fall in love at first sight.¿ The story chronicles the day-to-day life ofthis unlikely couple and their growing family in the 1920's and 30s and followsthem from Tom's posting near Baltimore to his training at Fort Leavenworth andhis assignments as instructor at West Point and Assistant Military Attach atParis.Tom and his fellow officers tryto hold together an army gutted by their country's optimism that there willnever be another war while from his vantage point in Paris Tom watches AdolphHitler prepare for war.