The War That Couldn`t Wait

<p><strong>Synopsis:</strong></p><p><strong>The War That Couldn't Wait</strong> is a searing World War II novel about legacy sacrifice and the lines we cross to carry each other home.</p><p>When sixteen-year-old Melvin Cornedge forges enlistment papers and storms Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry he isn't chasing glory-he's chasing the trail of his father Sergeant Marvyn Cornedge believed missing in action. What begins as a reckless act of love becomes a brutal crucible as Melvin fights through the shattered towns of Normandy bound to a promise no one asked him to keep.</p><p>Guided by the gruff but loyal Corporal Waylon Melvin encounters the true cost of war: bullet-riddled villages broken bodies and a brotherhood stitched together by grit and grief. Along the way fragments of Marvyn's story emerge-an act of sacrifice a medic's testimony and a note scribbled in pain.</p><p>When a discharge order arrives near Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves it's not just Melvin's body that returns home but the weight of everything he's carried: his father's dog tags a letter folded in blood and the ashes of a boyhood lost in the mud of France.</p><p>Years later Melvin's son James will uncover the silence between those men and give it voice-because some wars don't end when the fighting does. Some live on in memory passed from father to son-not as wounds but as quiet acts of love that outlast the battlefield.</p>