An Emotional and Witty Historical Novel Layered with Commentary on Poverty, Faith, War, Race, and Survival

Two Texas brothers flee their outlandish family, poverty, and abuse and join the military before World War II to maintain U.S. fighter planes. A Swedish chef, singing Haitian pilot and Free French Bedouin are their comrades. While the home front is poignant and humor is at the heart of this book, it is also a commentary on poverty, faith, war, race, and survival.

The Battles Forgotten series is historical fiction based on the author’s three great uncles' experiences in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters during World War II. Book 1 jumps back and forth between the home front in Texas and the battle front in North Africa.

There is wartime action: Allied/Axis Bombings/strafings of airfields; a bombing in the Kasserine Pass, dogfights, a firefight with a German patrol, and more importantly, the impacts they had on the soldiers involved. Carefully researched, readers will find Battles Forgotten both educational and historically accurate. In many cases the story and characters match the time and places that these events actually happened.

Readers who enjoy accurate historical WWII fiction combining action and humor with serious socio-political matters will thoroughly enjoy Battles Forgotten.