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The Wars Among the Paines
by John M. Millar
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GENRE: Historical Fiction - Military Fiction
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BLURB:
Spanning
over 200 years of American military history, “The Wars Among the Paines” (Koehler
Books, September 30, 2020), tells the complex story of a family defined by war,
accounting in vivid detail its toll in blood, treasure, and emotional turmoil.
Nearly 50 years in the making, “The Wars Among the Paines” is the debut novel
by Vietnam veteran John M. Millar, who tells a story that illustrates how the
consequences of America's foreign wars escape the boundaries of the front
lines, and ripple through generations of families, friends, politics, and the
lives of we the people.
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EXCERPT ONE:
THOMAS PINKERTON PAINE JOINS THE FIRST DIVISION—APRIL 1918
“OVER THERE”—George M. Cohan
Thomas
left on a troopship for France. He stayed on deck the entire time, except for
meals, to minimize his contact in a closely packed ship. One of his goals was
to return to his family by avoiding the diseases so easily contracted in war
zones. He arrived in St. Nazaire, France, and was rapidly transported in a
second-class passenger coach, while enlisted men rode in boxcars.
Thomas
arrived at the front at a time that the First Division was the only fully
trained American division in France. They had already lost a disproportionate
number of junior officers in their first operational missions. Thomas was
immediately assigned as a platoon leader in the 1/26th. He had been in France
for less than one month, but he was about to engage in his first combat
mission. The mission was to capture the town of Cantigny and the surrounding
high ground.
On
May 27, 1918, the division moved into its attack positions, and the next
morning commenced their attack on the German positions in and around Cantigny.
As the First Division advanced, German machine-gunners delivered heavy fire,
killing three officers in Company A. The advance halted, while the advance
party was pinned down. Until the machine guns were taken out, the First
Division could not move. Second Lt. Paine gathered five volunteers, all armed
with automatic rifles and grenades.
Thomas
had this exact tactical problem while he trained in Ithaca. He had his
remaining men deliver heavy fire on the machine gun positions, while his team
pulled back and circled the Germans’ flank. They advanced slowly, then charged
the bunkers, using their grenades first. When the grenades flushed out those
who were not dead, the men fired their automatic rifles, killing the rest of
the gunners and their support. Thomas’ and his men’s heroism would be
recognized after the battle—if they were still alive.
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AUTHOR BIO:
John M. Millar has
no traditional experience in writing a novel. “The Wars Among the Paines”
is a result of a fifty-year process since returning from Vietnam in 1969.
Millar grew up in Central Pennsylvania; and graduated from Cornell University
in 1966. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966-1969; graduated from Officer
Candidate School in July 1967; served as a First Lieutenant with the First
Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969; and received two Bronze Stars,
an Air Medal and a Commendation Medal from the U.S. Army. From the Vietnam
government, Millar received the Vietnamese Honor Medal and the Vietnamese
Gallantry Cross for joint operations. He graduated from the Darden Graduate
Business School, University of Virginia with a MBA in 1972. For the past
forty-five years, he has served in senior executive positions in the department
store, regional mall REITs and mixed-use town center development industries.
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John ~ Good morning! Welcome to FAB! It is so great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
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