Twenty Lives at War

Book Seven of the Twenty Lives at War Series maps one war from conference rooms to rice paddies, from carrier decks to crowded clinics. An aide crafts language that becomes policy; a sailor keeps a ship steady in the dark; a nurse fights time under mass-casualty floodlights. A tunnel scout crawls into fear, a helicopter crew chief races the clock, and an allied infantryman holds a battered street. Across the divide, mothers rebuild after fire, a highlands interpreter bargains for his people, and a prisoner survives years behind walls. Back home, a protester, a factory worker, and a grieving father learn how slogans fail. Together these voices form a panoramic, character-driven journey about courage, rebellion, and homefront hope-and the human cost in plain sight that lingers long after the shooting stops.

Book One of The Twenty Lives at War Series. The American Revolution: 20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope brings the founding era down from marble pedestals and into muddy fields, smoky taverns, and candlelit kitchens. Each of the twenty stories follows a different person whose life is upended between 1765 and 1783: a Boston dockworker who loses his livelihood to the blockade, a farmer's wife hiding a deserter in her root cellar, a Black sailor weighing British promises of freedom, a Mohawk scout watching his people pulled between empires, a teenage drummer boy marching on blistered feet, a Loyalist printer forced to choose between truth and safety. From Lexington green to the frozen huts at Valley Forge, from Charleston's harbor to frontier cabins, these voices reveal the Revolution as a patchwork of fear, faith, hunger, pride, and quiet acts of defiance. Read singly or as a whole, these stories show that independence was not just declared-it was earned, one fragile, determined life at a time.

Book Four of Twenty Lives at War is a propulsive mosaic of twenty Americans caught in the war's "other" front, from December 1941 to June 1945. A Honolulu switchboard operator and an overworked nurse ride the shock of Pearl Harbor. A Cape Hatteras spotter watches for U-boats; a Brooklyn riveter fights blame on the factory line. At Tanforan, a Japanese-American teenager becomes a courier of memory; in Los Angeles and San Francisco, women track sabotage and lead blackout searches through fog and fear. In Iowa, a ration-board clerk slips into compromise; in Pittsburgh, a newsroom assistant risks print to tell the truth of the "Double V." A Pullman porter chooses decency on a Chicago platform; a Black mechanic insists an engine's facts outrank hierarchy. In Washington, a speechwriter battles cleaned-up language; in Kansas, a farm wife protects a desperate kid. A Leavenworth prisoner, a Boston dockyard priest, Indiana parents facing three telegrams, and a Mobile girl at a bus depot carry the arc to love, loss, and hard-won hope.