Reviewer Mary Lignor: Mary is a retired librarian, originally from Connecticut but now living in New Mexico. All her life Mary has loved books and has passed this love on to her daughters. Mary started working in a library when her children were young as an Assistant Librarian and ended up as its Director. Her favorite books are suspense, political intrigue and anything involving the World War II era.
Author: Tom Gauthier
ISBN:
978-1-4327-4843-2
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The second book by this author
featuring Major Amos Mead, USMC. Major Mead is sent on a
mission with the OSS that goes from Burma and into China. This
assignment takes the Major into danger that he hadn't expected to
find along with the possibility that the Vice President of the US at
that time, Henry Wallace, might be involved with the Communists to
weaken the power of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in fighting World
War II.
Major Mead and his colleagues and friends are
sent into Burma to investigate so called friends in the Far East to
see if they are on the up and up. His plane is shot down and
the pilot is killed. However, Mead and his team are still
alive and are walking toward the Thailand Border. During
World War II the China/Burma area was a mixed up mess of
different people competing with each other for dominance of
the area. The country that the Mead team has to pass
through is enemy territory and various governments in the area
are fighting each other for some sort of control over the US. The
team doesn't know until the end of their trek about the schemes
of local governments and officials that are influenced by these
governments that could possible include the Vice President of the
US. Some friends have turned into enemies and vice versa, as
Major Mead and his team are pulled into a situation that
has been brewing in the area for many years.
The
conclusion of the book is an eye-opener. I have read many books
about WWII but, never one that takes place solely in this area
(Burma/China). My thing was always the European Theater of
Operations. Until I read Mead's Trek I didn't really know a
lot about the Japanese, except for Pearl Harbor and the
Phillipines. Now, thanks to Mr. Gauthier, I have a new
understanding of their importance in what happened in WWII and also
the wars that followed. The author has done his homework and
the book is very interesting because it's about real people and what
they went through in that war. I highly recommend this book to
readers who are interested in the history of World War II. Even
though Mead's Trek is listed as fiction, these characters are
very real and you can imagine them going through the horrible things
that they saw. I intend to find a copy of Orion's Eye simply
to see what went on before for Major Mead and friends. Thanks
to Mr. Gautier for a very interesting and informative read.
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