THE ROAD TO WAR

About the Book

A riveting first-person account of a brave young man caught up in a cataclysmic World War.

This is the story of Captain William C. Frodsham, Jr., who — shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry, where he excelled in basic training, became a junior officer, and eventually led a combat boat team ashore on Omaha Beach.

Six days later, in French hedgerow country and under withering German fire, Frodsham was wounded and taken prisoner.  He spent the next year as a German POW, where he suffered great deprivation before finally being liberated by advancing Russian forces.

His training, his courage, his capture.  The reader is taken for a first-person tour of the times at home and then tunneled into a vastly different world on the battlefield and in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

A truly remarkable story.

About the Author

After a long career as a stockbroker and mutual fund manager, Steven Burgauer turned to writing in 1993. He has written several science fiction books as well as an investment guide and a fictionalized story of Neanderthal's first encounter with man. His many science-fiction tales include such works as “NEWHUMAN”, “The Fornax Drive” and “The Brazen Rule”. His most recent book is entitled “A More Perfect Union.” Many of his writings incorporate libertarian themes. His books delve deeply into economic theory and political philosophy. From invention to property rights to personal freedom and choice, these books follow the adventures of a space-faring family three centuries in the future. In the words of Philip Jose Farmer, three-time Hugo award winner, “Burgauer's THE BRAZEN RULE is tightly plotted, has excellent characters, and shows basic human nature as it is: a thirst for power.”