Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Red San Publishing, L.L.C.
ISBN-10: B008FVMPUE
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 78
Copyright: June 2012
ISBN-13: 9780983450030
A birthday, a kid and America's defining moment
Mark was born on the third of July. He grew up believing his birthday had no meaning other than the day he was born. At the end of the school year in the fifth grade, his strict but fair teacher, Mr. Herzog, tells Mark about a great battle that happened on his birthday. His teacher called it, “The defining moment in American history.” Mark celebrates his eleventh birthday followed by America's independence in none other than Independence, Missouri. Although it is the best birthday and Fourth of July of his life, Mark realizes the true meaning of war, the sadness. Born on the third of July is about a kid struggling with not only his own identity, but also the identity of America.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
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