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"Young Sue Gurwell had always known that her father had been a paratrooper. And then there was the special poem in his roll-top desk she sometimes snuck a peek at, written by a member of Dad's regiment. This poem was a premonition of the sergeant's death. ""Yes,"" her dad told her, ""He was right--he died on D-Day."" But it's not until 2016, after her parents had both passed away, that Susan Gurwell Talley and her husband Jack L. Talley begin to understand the true extent and significance of the wartime artifacts that had been staples of Sue's childhood. The Talleys discovered that Sue's father, Lt. George L. Gurwell, Executive Officer, HqHq, 508th PIR, had silently squirreled away thousands of wartime documents in the family home. This precious resource could not have passed into better hands than those of Jack and Sue Talley. Jack, a PhD psychologist specializing in PTSD, was the first to understand that George had PTSD symptoms that still lingered from the war years when he and George were introduced on June 6, 2001. That evening, the fifty-seventh anniversary of D-Day, George first opened up about the war, and preceded to talk late into the night. In that conversation lies the genesis of this book."

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Jack L. Talley and wife Susan share a rich history of familial and personal involvement with the US military. Both have volunteered with the Patriot Guard Riders and American Legion Post 304. A Georgia-licensed PhD psychologist with over thirty years of post-doctoral experience, Jack has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of veterans with PTSD since 2014. Susan Gurwell Talley is the daughter of Lt. George Gurwell, an original member of the 508th PIR and the HqHq Executive Officer in WWII. Susan Gurwell Talley is a retired office manager. Her daughter served two tours, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, as an officer in the US Army Reserves, and is married to a retired US Marine Corps officer. Susan and her husband Jack share a passion for competitive sports, favoring WWII-era rifles and the M1 Garand in particular since 2004. They were shooting members on teams that won the National Match Winner plaques for the high M1 team in the National Team Infantry Trophy Match for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011 (record score). Christa Lewis has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. She is a classically trained actress with a four-year conservatory training in voice and acting. She has a smart and funny vibe, but can also meet the moment in straightforward or somber works of nonfiction thanks to a seventeen-year stint as a newsreader. Christa speaks accent-free German fluently and offers a variety of believable accents and dialects. Her narrations are well received--there have been seven Earphones awards across a variety of genres--YA, literary fiction, biography and memoir--a 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award in Biography and two Audie nominations. Pippa Jayne was the Sultry Listeners' Award Winner 2019 in the Erotica category.

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