FATHERS DAY BOOKS.

A Good Way to Remember all the Fathers out there…

150,000+ books sold!

Groundbreaking World War II and Holocaust narrative history. And it is all TRUE, as told in our veterans’ and survivors’ own words, intimately, just you and the speaker at a kitchen table over a cup of coffee, tea, or a bottle of beer.

I was born 16 years after the killing stopped, and the day is fast approaching when no one with firsthand memory of World War II will be alive. Most will have gone the way of the World War I and Civil War generation without ever having told the tale outside of their own brothers and sisters who experienced it with them. So, thank you for reading my books; they are the culmination of a mission that for me turns out to have been lifelong. If you actually read them to the end, you will have done something important—you will have remembered a person who may be now long dead, a veteran who may have lived out his or her final days wondering if it was all worth it.

‘I get a little emotional. I’m almost 93; I hope to see them all again in heaven.’― John Swarts, B-17 Tail Gunner

And these people were our teachers and coaches, shopkeepers and carpenters, millworkers and mechanics, nurses and stenographers, lawyers and loggers, draftsmen and doctors, people from every walk of life, grade school dropouts and college graduates. They were the World War II generation, and there was a time when sixteen million of them were in uniform.

You can pick up the books in any order;

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The Things Our Fathers Saw Vol. I Pacific War

The Things Our Fathers Saw® series started with my first book on the oral history of the men and women who served in the Pacific Theater of the war. But you don’t have to start with this book—I constructed them so that you can pick up any of the series books and start anywhere—but it’s up to you. An audio version is also available.

Vol. II War in the Air 1

Volumes 2 and 3 in the series deal with the Air War in the European Theater of the war. I had a lot of friends in the heavy bombers; here they tell you their stories, some funny, some sad, but all are riveting and intense.

Vol. III War in the Air 1

As stated, Volume 3 is about the Air War again, and this time I have some of my friends who were fighter pilots, including a Tuskegee Airman who had to deal with racism back home, on top of defeating fascism in Europe. There is also the story of my B-17 friends, sitting around a table and telling about the day they were all shot down over Germany, and how they survived the prisoner-of-war experience in the last year of the war.

Vol. IV The War in Italy

My newest. The War in the Mediterranean as told by an Army Ranger, a captain and a nurse who met in Italy and began a 65-year courtship, an escaped PoW on the run behind enemy lines, hitting and killing Germans near Rome, a soldier and his best combat buddy (the dog he trained to scout and carry messages along the front lines), and the stories of the elite mountain troops who seized vital mountain outposts by doing the impossible and scaling cliffs at night. And others!