A World Ablaze

BOGGED DOWN IN ITALY, FACING A BRUTAL WAR OF ATTRITION IN THE PACIFIC. THE ALLIES CAN SEE VICTORY-ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A BLOODBATH

From the Far East to London, it is the world's war, and the Carlisles' and the Belvales' war. Colonel Chad Belvale and his son Owen face the death rattle of Schneisser machine pistols and long-range German artillery in Sicily; Major Keenan Carlisle is with British Brigadier Wingate's famed behind-the lines raiders on New Georgia Island near the Solomon chain; Sergeant Eddie Donnely, newly married into the Carlisle family, recovers from his own father's death by dueling with snipers in a South Seas jungle. And while the women make their won sacrifices---in a brutal Japanese prison camp and in a Hawaiian hospital laced with its own dangers---the family patriarchs are continents apart. General Crusty Carlisle battles for his life after his troop ship is sunk in the Pacific, and General Preston Belvale helps aim the world's most powerful war machine toward the beaches of Nazi-held Europe.