Wilber's War (trilogy)

A father's odyssey. A mother's secret. A son's story. The Wilber's War (trilogy) is an expanded version of the author's one-volume work of the same name, with three times the content for the reader who wants to more fully immerse him or herself in the lives of two ordinary Americans, Wilber and Norma Bradt, during an extraordinary time, World War II. It offers fresh insight -- deeply personal -- into the historic conflict as it was fought by the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater and by...
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A father's odyssey. A mother's secret. A son's story. The Wilber's War (trilogy) is an expanded version of the author's one-volume work of the same name, with three times the content for the reader who wants to more fully immerse him or herself in the lives of two ordinary Americans, Wilber and Norma Bradt, during an extraordinary time, World War II. It offers fresh insight -- deeply personal -- into the historic conflict as it was fought by the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater and by a family on the home front. It is an epic tale of duty, heroism, love, infidelity and the tragedy of suicide. --- The work offers a detailed and nuanced view into the complexities faced by one family and by U.S. society as a whole when it ships soldiers off to war and asks loved ones to forge new lives on the home front. Beautifully produced, three books in a slipcase, a collector's item. --- "informed and informative...thoughtful and thought-provoking...inherently fascinating read...deftly crafted...very highly recommended for both community and academic library...collections" [Midwest Book Review, June 2015] "Hale Bradt relates a story that could resonate with the multitude of families who also sacrificed a father, a husband or son [to war]." [Foreword Reviews, Fall 2015] "fascinating, original biography...Rarely do we meet such sexual frankness and emotional pathos...a superb job" [The Journal of Military History, Jan. 2016] --- The trilogy: 1112 pages, 39 maps, 269 photos/facsimiles, 6 charts. Book 1: Citizen Soldier. Book 2: Combat and New Life. Book 3: Victory and Homecoming. --- Author Hale Bradt, Wilber and Norma's son, shares his parents' stories with insight, compassion, and a wealth of carefully selected images that bring their experiences to life. Visiting in the 1980s the battlefields where his father fought, he adds another uniquely American voice to this rich story: that of a son seeking to unravel the tangled threads of his family's legacy. TWO SILVER AWARDS (IBPA's Benjamin Franklin and Foreword Reviews' IndieFAB), and A FINALIST AWARD (Natl. Indie Excellence).