I'll Be Seeing You, From Infamy to Victory, a WWII Series—Book Two
World War II came to the United States by surprise on a Sunday morning in a tropical paradise. America called upon her average sons and daughters to save her, and average gave way to heroism above and beyond the call.
I’ll Be Seeing You reintroduces the reader to the men and women A String of Pearls employed to tell the story of how revisionist history might have us reevaluate the Pearl Harbor raid. They are joined by new characters, some who wear the Swastika and Rising Sun on their sleeves.
The transition from civilian to soldier and from plowshare to sword is cast in the first critical months of war when the United States seemingly couldn’t do anything right, to those first tentative and desperate battles where it could do nothing wrong, led by a core of soldiers and sailors who through each other learned how special the country they fought for really was.
The reader watches Doolittle’s B-25’s bolt from the Hornet to bomb Tokyo, flies with a heroic torpedo squadron at Midway, convulses with Marines on Guadalcanal, and witnesses German agents land on Long Island.
Did it all have to happen as it did? What were the thoughts of Churchill and Roosevelt during these early days? It’s a story that needs revisiting, as its lessons are relevant today.
About the Author
Ben Baglio has had a lifelong interest in history. His particular affection for the generation who fought World War II both on the homefront and on the farflung fields of Europe and the Pacific is personified by his first historical novel, A String of Pearls. The testaments to the desperate battles, from the Arizona resting at Pearl Harbor to the American cemetery at Normandy’s Colleville Sur Mer overlooking Omaha Beach, speak to him of unimaginable valor and hope for better tomorrows.
Dr. Baglio has spent his career working as a public school educator and college professor. He is the author of the four-book World War II series From Infamy to Victory, as well as his nonfiction work Kid’s Are The Easy Part, an insider’s perspective on school reform. When not working as an educational consultant, he continues to write historical fiction. He lives with his wife on Long Island, New York.
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