Twenty Lives at War: World War II Pacific

Book Five of The Twenty Lives at War Series

World War II Pacific 20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope 

Book Five of the Twenty Lives at War Series is a panoramic collection of 20 stand-alone short stories that follows the Pacific war from its first shocking blows through the long, grinding island-by-island struggle and the uneasy aftermath. Each chapter inhabits one ordinary life—sailors and Marines, a nurse and a corpsman, a dockworker and a shop girl, clerks and interpreters, civilians caught under occupation, and even those on the other side of the front—showing how history feels at human scale. Told with clean, fast, scene-forward prose, these stories trade speeches for choices: duty, fear, love, hunger, resilience, and the quiet moral injuries that linger when the guns move on.