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    No Road Back: A WWII Novel
    No Road Back: A WWII Novel
    No Road Back: A WWII Novel
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    No Road Back: A WWII Novel

    By Thomas Street

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    “To Dave, the war was now personal. It had robbed
    him of a love he might never find again. It had hushed a voice he would never hear again. It had turned his dream into a nightmare, and confirmed his belief that there’s no road back to anything.”

    In the summer of 1943, Dave Wagoner, a small town doctor from Mississippi, is thrust into the middle of World War II as an Army medic on the European front. This poignant story follows Dave through loves, losses, trials and tribulations as he journeys to England with the 41st Support Detachment
    on a highly secret mission.

    No Road Back, a manuscript written by World War II Veteran Master Sergeant Thomas D. Street, existed only on onion skin for thirty years and appears now for the first time. This fictional story was completed only months before Mr. Street’s death in 1976 and is based on accounts collected over his 26 years in the United States Air Force while stationed in Hawaii, England, Italy, and Japan, among other locations.

    Thomas Street was first cousin to popular author James Street who wrote over ten best selling novels, four of which were made into Hollywood films.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Street
    Release dateMar 29, 2012
    ISBN9781476207209
    No Road Back: A WWII Novel
    Author

    Thomas Street

    First cousin to James Street, author of ten best selling novels—four of which were made into Hollywood films—Thomas Street felt a passion for story telling. He delighted in telling stories to friends and, in more private moments, to my sisters and I. But there was one story he told only to himself. My sisters I and often fell asleep at night to the sound of him click-clacking away on his Royal typewriter, writing and rewriting. In my earliest memories I see my father sitting at the dining room table surrounded by stacks of red-marked onionskin pages. A labor of love, the manuscript took him decades to complete, through joy, frustrations and tears and with the unwavering support of my mother, Frances. The story draws its life from my father’s 26 years of service in the United States Air Force, that included World War II, the Korean War and peacetime stations in Hawaii, England, Italy, and Japan. Waiting for his editor to finalize the manuscript, my father passed away on a cold Saturday in January, 1976. Two days later the editor handed his manuscript to me, a teenager, and overwhelmed by loss and sadness, I set it aside with an unbroken promise to someday realize my father’s dream of publishing No Road Back. For thirty-six years the story existed only on onionskin. Now, in 2012, it finally appears in print.

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