A father's odyssey. A mother's strength. A son's story. The trilogy, Wilber's War, chronicles the story of two ordinary Americans, Wilber and Norma Bradt, during an extraordinary time, World War II. It offers fresh insight-on a deeply personal level-into the historic conflict as it was fought by the U.S. Army in the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and The Philippines and by a family on the home front. It is an epic tale of duty, heroism, love, and human frailty.

Award(s)

2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist (War & Military/Nonfiction)

Book Website

http://www.wilberswar.com

Contributor(s)

Hale Bradt

Publisher

Van Dorn Books

ISBN-13

978-0-9908544-0-1

Publication Date

Aug 14, 2015

Pages

1112

Price

$79.00

Tags

#biography

Our Review

Three years in the Pacific Theater during WWIl leads to 700 intimate letters, but this story is less about a war hero than it is about a loving family man. In his weighty trilogy (nine pounds on the bathroom scale) in honor of the father World War II deprived him of ever fully knowing, Hale Bradt... Read More