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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. 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. Bill is picked by Roosevelt to run his first Map Room in Washington. 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. 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. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him. 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drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and primary sources including diaries, unpublished memoirs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers is a remarkable story of agony and triumph--from the home front to Roosevelt's White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. It is the story, written with intimate, novelistic detail, of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the Japanese do everything short of killing him. And it is, above all, a story of brotherly love: of three men finding their loyalty to each other tested under the tortures of war--and knowing that their success or failure to save their youngest brother will shape their family forever.

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A gripping, deeply moving saga of an American family whose experiences cast a new light on one of the most harrowing and heroic periods in American history. In their devotion to each other and to their country, these three brothers inspire us with courage, intelligence, and exceptional resilience. -<b> Sally Bedell Smith, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Elizabeth the Queen</i></b>

A searing story of courage, love, and family. <i>The Jersey Brothers</i> is impressively broad in scope--from Roosevelt's White House to the great battles of the Pacific to prisoner of war camps deep in the Philippine jungle--and brimming with endlessly fascinating details that only real soldiers could know. - <b>Jay Winik, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>1944 </i></b>

A searing story of courage, love, and family. <i>The Jersey Brothers</i> is impressively broad in scope from Roosevelt s White House to the great battles of the Pacific to prisoner of war camps deep in the Philippine jungle and brimming with endlessly fascinating details that only real soldiers could know. <b>Jay Winik, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>1944</i></b>

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Sally Mott Freeman was a speechwriter and media and public relations executive for twenty-five years. She is currently Board Chair Emerita of The Writer's Center, the premier independent literary center in the mid-Atlantic. The Jersey Brothers is her first book.

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