The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home /
They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterp...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines
- Benny
- Helen
- Bill
- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942
- White House Map Room, April 1942
- "This force is bound for Tokyo"
- Barton, 1930-1941
- The perils of escape-and a little baseball
- A brother's burden: the search
- Midway
- Under siege: JN-25
- To Davao: en avant!
- And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan
- The other war: Army-Navy football
- Happy days at the penal colony
- Winter's grief
- Escape: crime and punishment
- Farewell to the White House
- A tale of atrocities
- August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada
- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan
- Secrets inside the oxygen tent
- Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department
- Bad tidings
- Politics in Brisbane
- "Proceed to Kwajalein"
- The best-laid plans
- Initiation at Saipan
- Decampment
- September 1944, Lilac Hedges
- Hopes dashed
- Setbacks
- Through a prism: MacArthur's return
- What Benny knew
- The Oryoko Maru
- End game in the Pacific
- A sailor's nightmare
- In the end, a question of casualties
- and sea power
- No peace at Lilac Hedges
- Final hours.