In very likely our last and best eyewitness account of the Midwest's self resurrection from the Great Depression to become the arsenal of democracy, "the author tells with feeling and perfect pitch, the bittersweet story of an unlikely young man's journey from boyhood to first love and finally to a soldier's duty. From the little Iowa town of Adel Miles Morgan follows his personal heroes of the greatest generation into a war to help save the world when the thunder of Nazi jackboots put freedom at risk."

            C. W. Gusewelle, Kansas City Star