The War Torn Series: Volume One: A Historical War Fiction Series

The War Torn #1-3

by Robert Vaughan

The epic struggle of the century—World War II.It's America, and her allies are at war against tyrants who seek to subjugate everyone—and every American must risk it all to help themselves, their family, and their country to survive.The Holts, an Illinois family, are caught up in the trials of World War II, their sons as soldiers and their daughter as the wife of a soldier. As each experiences the ebb of war—where people are struggling for their very existence—they come to realize that wartime looks different for everyone involved. Because not all conflicts are being fought by those in the air. They’re also being fought by those at home…waiting on loved ones to return.Some will live, some will not, but all will serve.Read along as, in the crucible of war, one family discovers that true heroism knows no boundaries. Grab your copy of this military historical fiction collection today!The War Torn Volume One includes The Brave and the Lonely, The Embattled and the Bold, and The Fallen and the Free.

598 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 25, 2020

About the author

Robert Vaughan is an American writer. He has also written a series of contemporary and historical romance novels under several pseudonyms including "Paula Moore" and "Paula Fairman". His father served in the military and Robert followed him in the 1950s, entering army aviation. He served until the Vietnam War and won numerous medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with several oak-leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal, and several other medals.
His early books reflected his military background: the first novel was about the US Army along the DMZ in Korea, followed by a trilogy set in Vietnam. There are more than 9 million of his books in print under various names. He was inducted into the Writers’ Hall of Fame in 1998.

Reviews

[Liviu · Rating 5 out of 5]

This novel consists of the (presumably revised somewhat) reissue of three short novels from the 1980's who are linked by some of the characters and present a WW 2 storyline from an American perspective with the Holt family (one son bomber pilot, one son genius physicist recruited for Los Alamos and a daughter working for the Red Cross in NYC whose husband is an infantryman on the western front), an English titled family (a general, three daughters working in various capacities for the British army, his wife who is secretly a radio operator/spy handler for missions behind German lines and two sons in law presenting aspects of the war in Burma and the bombing campaign from the British pov) and a French set of characters (a famous novelist, a cafe owner and his daughter all from the Resistance, one of the radio operators from the previous storyline and the navy/army son and brother of the cafe owner who both choose to continue the fight under De Gaulle).

While the three novels are chronological and all ending in 1945, so the first one spoils some events from the second, the storylines are cleverly designed with new revelations in each of the following books completing what came before.

There are two more storylines that present the war from the Japanese and German point of views that tie with these stories to some extent and are as awesome as them, those being part of Volume 2 which I will also review soon

Each of the storylines is fairly complete and brims with energy, lots and lots of things happening in a fairly short book of its respective storyline (each is about 250 pages or so for a total of some 750 pages in the first volume) and they are really hard to put down.

Great characters, events that tie in the main phases of the war at least from the Western and later German and Japanese perspective - the only glaring omission is a Russian/Soviet one but considering that the books were originally written in the early 80's that is understandable at least to some extent given that was a period when the Cold war seemed to heat up again.

Highly, highly recommended for an epic multi-family, multinational tale of war, suffering, sacrifices but also love, heroism, and fulfillment

[CATHY BARBER · Rating 5 out of 5]

Truly Wonderful

If it were possible I would give the War Torn Series, twenty stars. Extremely well written with fantastic characters that you will love.one of the best works ever written. Robert Vaughan is a great writer whom has given us a wonderfully strong story about people and war and personal joy and crisis. It is truly a "Must Read". Thank You Robert Vaughan.

[Ev · Rating 5 out of 5]

A War Torn Series: Volume one

This was a long read, but well worth the time! The character descriptions were outstanding and the story never lagged. There was a great amount of detail and planning in these stories. I would rate this as a must read!!

[Robert C. smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Realistic Conflicts of War Torn Years!
Vaughan food a master at duplicating the historical and technical accuracy of the struggle among families, friends and even politicians during WWII through the eyes of a few. Deep emotions of love, hate, sadness and loss are clearly shown by realistic characters.