Valiant the Few

MANY THE BRAVE...VALIANT THE FEW In 1941 the ominous rumblings of a global war propel the United States military to adopt a game-changing weapon the M 1 rifle--known by all who would experience it as the Garand! King of the battlefield it would dominate the enemy from Guadalcanal to Sicily from the vast cauldron of the Philippines to Normandy Okinawa and every contested kill zone and patch of soil in between.Disciples of the Garand brothers Tony and Woody Luzak and their companions traverse the historic stepping stones which crisscross the mighty oceans. Their tenacious dedication compels them to repeatedly volunteer where harms path is most treacherous.VALIANT THE FEW PULLS NO PUNCHES. NO DIALING BACK IN INTENSITY.In weaving his tale Len Ferraguzzi deftly injects his heroic characters into the most trying of times. An authoritative historian and lively storyteller the author spins a chronicle of soldiers and marines of wives and families of guerrilla patriots swept up in the great conflict of World War II. Of buddies lost and comrades snatched from death of ground lost and electrifying assaults onward to ultimate victory its all captured in a breathtaking narrative.