World War II (series)

When World War II becomes imminent, Roman decides to put aside minor league baseball in order to enlist in the US Army, leaving behind his fiancée Hannah. During basic training he discovers that he has a definite talent for driving tanks and Roman is eager to join his fellow soldiers on the front line. His eagerness later turns to horror after he is sent to North Africa to fight the Afrika Korps, where he witnesses the horrors and atrocities of war firsthand.

Dead in the Water focuses on the older of two brothers, Hank, who joins the US Navy to fight in World War II. This forces him to leave his younger sister Suzie behind but also results in him separating from his brother Theo, the first time that the two have ever really been apart. Hank is assigned to work on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, where he quickly bonds with his crewmates over a shared love of baseball. He is soon faced with the brutality of war due to the attack on Pearl Harbor, as the pilots aboard his aircraft carrier must battle Japanese forces and the ship is at constant risk of torpedo attack.

Book three focuses on Theo, who joined the United States Army Air Forces and becomes a gunner in a B-24 Liberator aircraft. He takes to the work quite well and is not easily rattled until he learns that his brother has been lost at sea after Yorktown was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-168.

Baseball player Nick is eager to join the war efforts and has pressured his friend and teammate Zachary to join him. The pair go through basic and then paramarine training, after which they join the 650 troop Second Parachute Battalion. They are sent to the recently liberated island of Vella Levella, where they experience their first real battles, and then to Choiseul Island, where they come across a familiar soldier believed to have been missing at sea.