Author Description

No punches pulled. A fascinating recounting of the author's "behind-the-scenes" wartime experiences. Graphic, often salacious, a four-part book with 29 chapters dealing with "sex, booze, money and the devil." This is the author's fourth book. It was written with astonishing honesty, irony and humor. Military men and their relatives will not be able to put it down. Review "This book is a pretty exciting find... I just want to say that this book reminds a lot of the early James Michener in his Tales of the South Pacific, (not the movie, the much-better book of short stories which showed what the real behind the lines war was like). Of course, this book isn't fiction told in the third-person but first-person fact. It has all the humor, pathos, humanity, and sheer historical interest of Michener's "tales" of Americans waging war in the South Pacific -- where part of the war was dealing with the sheer drudgery, boredom, and sometimes danger of getting through the endless days and another part was making sure that the "higher-ups" didn't manage to interfere too damn much with a rational existence. I get the feeling that the author, now apparently in his 70s, took a long look back at his rambunctious 17-year-old self, and despite moments of extreme ruefulness while looking back, has decided that, after all, he could have done worse. Can't close without saying that I really liked this book... the big tough boy who lived it... and the now mature author who knows how to tell a story, and tells it with wit and wisdom." - "Allen", writing on Amazon.com "Your book is a hit here... Ivy has been translating it for an 83 year old lady who lives in -- and lived in -- Davao during WWII. " Rob Pegg, Phillippines