Fire Music

About the Book

Fire Music is an American war and peace novel of the World War II era — written to create for those who weren’t there what it was really like, back then, when Pearl Harbor was bombed and Hitler declared war on us.

“Really like,” you were young and madly in love and your happy world was suddenly threatened with total destruction. Startled, you saw yourself sitting in a velvet-lined opera box watching through opera glasses destruction already in progress across the Atlantic Ocean. The shows were called “Dismemberment of Europe” and “Fall of France.”

Fire Music is what happened then to Americans — what they did and how they did it; who struggled and made a difference and survived; who struggled and made a difference and did not survive.

About the Author

Bianca VanOrden's war and peace novel, Fire Music, is not historical to her. It's her life. She spent two years as a student at Cambridge University in the 30's. She was in Paris when Hitler made his Nuremburng speech and was on a liner bound for home during the Munich Agreement. Besides stories published in the '40s she late published four novels and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.