“World War II has always been in my memory for a couple of reasons. One is that my father served in the navy during it, and was at the battle for Iwo Jima. Two is that I was born 2 years after the war ended, and it just felt “close” when I was growing up. I grew to admire Felix Sparks more, the soldier about whom this book was written, with every page of this novel. My admiration culminated in the story of him battling the NRA in Colorado when his 16 year old grandson was killed by a handgun many years after the war. But, what he endured in WWII cannot be comprehended. It’s impossible for us who have never been in the service or in combat to understand what a combat soldier in WWII went through. I will be forever grateful to those Americans in our past who endured so much for us to be free. This book was as good as “Unbroken”, the story of another American, who endured at the hands of the Japanese in WWII.”
John Marlowe wrote this review Friday, January 4, 2013.
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