French Letters Children of a Good War

French Letters Children of a Good War, winner of ForewordReview's 2018 gold medal for military and war fiction of the year, is thecrown jewel in Jack Woodville London's French Letters Trilogy. These novels ofthe United States in the second half of the twentieth century are writtenthrough the eyes of the Hastings family, their friends, their enemies, andtheir secrets. They portray a nation that was unified in World War II andprosperous in the years that followed, but gave way to bitter division over theVietnam War and the struggle to find the nation's soul by the generation thatforgot its history and took its wealth, status, and privilege for granted.Briefly, forty years after World War II, Eleanor Hastings already hadlearned that bombs can lie buried for decades before blowing up to hurtsomeone. Now it has happened again as a hidden cache of faded wartime lettersis discovered in a cellar and reveal that Eleanor's husband, Frank was abastard who his father had brought back from the war in France, sending Frankon a quest to find out who he really is -- and to uncover his family'slong-buried secrets."Children of a Good War is like a giant puzzle you think you've solved,then find more unsettling pieces. Intelligent and engrossing, hard to put down,London's best novel to date lingers in your thoughts long after you close itand turn out the lights."-- Author Joyce Faulkner, winner of the Howard-Johnson Prize for HistoricalFictionBest Novel of the Year -- Military Writers Society of AmericaBest Novel of the South -- Willie Morris, FinalistBest Novel with a Romantic Element -- Dear Author, Finalist