The comparable price for autographed books in hardcover separately (8 vols.) is nearly $300. This 3-book bundle is (3) 2" thick, 3 lb. books offered here in hardcover and AUTOGRAPHED by the author, with one collector's bookmark. OVER 2400 PAGES!

Cloth binding with embossed spine and glossy color dust jacket.

 CONTENTS:

THE FIRST 3 BOOK OMNIBUS EDITION, in one 822-page binding, The Things Our Fathers Saw--The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation : VOLUMES 1-3 

*THE SECOND 3 BOOK OMNIBUS EDITION, in one 816-page binding, The Things Our Fathers Saw--The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation : VOLUMES 4-6 

THE THIRD 3 BOOK OMNIBUS EDITION, in one 802-page binding, The Things Our Fathers Saw--The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation : VOLUMES 7-8

Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater- 

The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock is one thing. But now you have to tell her, from 5000 miles away. 

Volume II: War in the Air--From the Great Depression to Combat-

HOW DO YOU THINK YOU FEEL when you wake up in a hospital and find out you killed your own mother?

JUST WHAT DO YOU DO in that moment when your plane's been hit, and you are about to crash far from home?

Volume 2 in the series deal with the Air War in the European Theater of the war. I had a lot of friends in the heavy bombers; they tell you all about what it was like to grow up during the Great Depression as the clouds of war gathered, going off to the service, and into the skies over Europe, sharing stories of both funny and heartbreaking, and all riveting and intense. It actually begins with my quest to learn more about a 20-year-old relative's death in the skies over Germany. I was told the entire crew perished on July 29, 1944. I could not be more wrong...

Volume III, First Edition: War in the Air--Combat, Captivity, and Reunion-
WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH when you're rousted awake in the middle of a freezing German night to be death-marched across Germany?

WHEN YOUR BUDDY STAGGERS AND FALLS by the side of the road, and no longer even knows who you are, do you keep moving to keep yourself alive?

Volume 3 is about the Air War again, and this time I have some of my friends who were fighter pilots, including a Tuskegee Airman who had to deal with racism back home, on top of defeating fascism in Europe. There is also the story of my B-17 crew friends, sitting around a table and telling about the day they were all shot down over Germany, and how they survived the prisoner-of-war experience in the last year of the war.

Volume IV: Up the Bloody Boot/The War in Italy—The Things Our Fathers Saw

Volume 4 in this series will take you from the deserts of North Africa to the mountains of Italy with the men and women veterans of the Italian campaign who open up about a war that was so brutal, news of it was downplayed at home. The war in the Mediterranean, and particularly the Italian Campaign, is one that for many Americans is shrouded in mystery and murkiness. Yet it was here that the United States launched its first offensive in the west on enemy soil, and it was here that Allied forces would be slogging it out with a tenacious enemy fighting for its life in the longest single American Campaign of World War II.

Volume V: D-Day and Beyond/The War in France—The Things Our Fathers Saw

Volume 5 in this series is really the book I had in mind to write as I began to collect and process WWII interviews after being inspired at our veterans' return to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day. From the bloody beach at Omaha through the hedgerow country of Normandy and beyond, American veterans of World War II—Army engineers and infantrymen, Coast Guardsmen and Navy sailors, tank gunners and glider pilots—sit down with you across the kitchen table and talk about what they saw and experienced, tales they may have never told anyone before.

Volume VI: The Bulge And Beyond—The Things Our Fathers Saw

In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in American history, the so-called 'Battle of the Bulge'.

You will be with them as they sense the fear of the unknown, the crush of impending doom, the scale of being among the columns of young, tired men slogging into a forest, medieval and dark, with the complete inability to ever get warm again.
19,000 American GIs never saw their mothers again.

Volume VII: Across The Rhine—The Things Our Fathers Saw

In "ACROSS THE RHINE", we follow our soldiers from the beaches of Normandy, into the Battle of the Bulge, and finally across Hitler’s West Wall into Germany.

In ‘Across The Rhine’, you will begin to liberate a continent with our veterans as they scale the cliffs at Pointe Du Hoc overlooking Omaha Beach.

You will jump with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment to capture bridgeheads in the Netherlands, and re-group to slug it out in the freezing Ardennes Forest in the winter of 1944-45.

The mission will then push you over the Siegfried Line and all the way to Germany’s most formidable western natural defense, the swift and swollen quarter-mile wide Rhine River.

As spring 1945 arrives, you will be with our GIs as they arrive at the gates of Dachau and have their very souls shaken as they become eyewitnesses to the greatest crime in the history of the world—the Holocaust; the Nuremberg War Crimes trials will then bring you face to face with the architects of terror, the most notorious war criminals of the twentieth century. 

Volume VIII: On To Tokyo—The Things Our Fathers Saw

In VOLUME 8 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, you will return to the Pacific with our veterans as they recall the chaos in the aftermath at Pearl Harbor, the first challenges on land at Guadalcanal, island hopping with the Marines, Navy, and Army at the Marshalls, Marianas, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. You will witness the most horrific bonzai charges of the war, accompany airmen on their B-29 missions over Japan, and lean over navy corpsmen as they work to save the wounded. 

By the end of 2020, fewer than 300,000 of our WW II veterans were still with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform. But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories?

Maybe our veterans did not volunteer to tell us; maybe we were too busy with our own lives to ask.

"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America".

Read how a generation of young Americans saved the world.

Because dying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.

-- "A must-read in every high school in America. It is a very poignant look back at our greatest generation; maybe it will inspire the next one."

Reviewer, Vol. I

*NOTE: THIS OMNIBUS VOLUME (2) IS SLIGHTLY ABRIDGED. ONE NARRATIVE FROM EACH OF VOL.4-6 WAS EDITED OUT, TO MEET BOOK SPINE REQUIREMENTS. THE ABRIDGED CONTENT FROM THIS EDITION ACTUALLY LEADS OFF OMNIBUS VOLUME 3, INCUDED IN THIS BUNDLE PACKAGE so you are not missing out on any content in the regular singular editions.