A World Ablaze - Men at Arms, Bk 3 Author:Con Sellers They came from generations of Warriors: Two proud American families destined to fight, Love and Die in the fires of World War II. Bogged down in Italy, facing a brutal War of Attrition in the Pacific, the Allies can see Victory -- on the other side of a bloodbath. — From the Far East to London, it is the world's war, and Carlisle's and th... more »e Belvales' war. Colonel Chad Belvale and his son Owen face the death rattle of Schmeisser machine pistols and long - range German artillery in Sicily; Major Keenan Carlisle is with British Brigadier Wingate's famed behind-the-lines raiders on New Georgia Island near the Solomon chain; Sergeant Eddie Donnely, newly married into the Carlisle family, recovers from his own father's death by dueling with snipers in the South Seas jungle. And while the women make their own sacrifices -- in a brutal Japanese prison camp and in a Hawaiian hospital laced with its own dangers -- the family patriarchs are continents apart. General Crusty Carlisle battles for his life after his troop ship is sunk in the Pacific, and General Preston Belvale helps aim the world's most powerful war machine toward the beaches of Nazi- held Europe. They had fought side by side in 1776 and against each other in the Civil War. This is their story -- the Epic Saga of two noble families, and their losses, honor, and the valor in a war like no other.« less