Author: Jerry Borrowman
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Publishing Date: March 2005
Length: 407 Pages
Summary: (From book) At fifteen, Danny O'Brian dreams of being something different than what his union-leader father has become-and now that the Richards family has moved to town, maybe it's possible. The Richardses have everything that the O'Brian's seem to lack-education, money, social standing-and best of all, they and their son are truly kind to Danny.
Everything changes, however, when war takes the two young men far from the peaceful streets of Pocatello, Idaho. Danny must fight in the trenches, reluctantly using the one skill he was taught by his father. Meanwhile, Trevor battles the enemy in the skies. But war will not be kind to these two men with a brotherly bond.
My Thoughts: Why is this author so amazing? Again, I literally sat there and cried for the last one hundred pages of this novel. What a beautiful, sweeping story of the pain of the war to end all wars. I fell deeply attached to both boys, and cheered and cried with them. The plot got a little slow right before the pre war dive, but other than that, this story was engaging and hard to put down. Borrowman is truly a gifted word weaver and I am going to eagerly dive into his other two historical fiction novels, but not after I've given myself a bit of a breather-I need to find more tissues.
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