C'est La Guerre

This novel had a long gestation period. I did a rough draft of it in 1947 when my wartime experiences and their emotional accompaniments as a Combat Fighter Pilot and a Forward Air Controller during the last year of the war with the Germans were still a major portion of my preoccupation. Thus, I had this documentation of the worldview of the youth and the global wartime culture which nourished it to keep them from fading over sixty years of earning a living. I owe that youth a debt of gratitude for staying with me for the birth and development of the novel. 


Combat fatigued Captain Jeffrey Hampton kills two Me-109’s before being hit and bailing out of his burning P-47. An escape line, mostly of beautiful women, moves him toward Spain at night. He and the last girl fall in love, and, as D-Day occurs, he joins resistance fighters until the invasion of Southern France frees him. After a mandatory leave to the States, he returns to France for a second tour in order to find his beloved.