Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and primary sources including diaries, unpublished memoirs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers is a remarkable story of agony and triumph-from the home front to Roosevelt's White House, and Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Barton, the youngest and least distinguished of the three, is shuffled off to the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. Benny is the gunnery and anti-aircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only carriers to escape Pearl Harbor and by the end of 1942 the last one left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Bill is picked by Roosevelt to run his first Map Room in Washington. They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Thank you Sally Mott Freeman for signing our books.The extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history-and save one of their own. She has been a speechwriter for twenty-five years and is Board Chair of The Writer's Center.
Beginning only as a family quest, she spent ten years painstakingly researching archives around the world, letters in basements and interviewing shipmates and POWs to put together this amazing story. SALLY MOTT FREEMAN (pictured below from our Wall of Fame) is the niece of the three Navy heroes whose experiences are described in the title. Published in May, 2017 by Simon and Schuster. It is a new, unread first edition opened only for signing and comes with a certificate authenticating the signature. THIS COPY (shown below) was hand signed on the title page by Sally Mott Freeman at her home. The story flows from the White House to Pearl Harbor to Midway to Bataan and to the home of a fierce New Jersey mother.
THE JERSEY BROTHERS: A MISSING NAVAL OFFICER IN THE PACIFIC AND HIS FAMILY'S QUEST TO BRING HIM HOME brings readers the harrowing account of siblings, who by coincidence are at the center of planning and execution of some of the most important early battles against the Japanese in World War Two.
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