One Day Over the Rhine is finally here.
This book began with three men: Lieutenant Tom Carr, PFC Billy Kane, and Corporal Eddie Ryan of the 717th Tank Battalion. Their lives converged inside a Sherman tank in Dinslaken, Germany, during Operation Plunder in March 1945, and what happened there bound their families together long after the war ended.
I have spent years following these men through letters, military records, family archives, photographs, battlefields, cemeteries, and the places where they once stood. What began as a family-commissioned history became something much larger: a story about friendship, sacrifice, memory, and the long reach of a single day of war.
I am very proud to finally send them out into the world.