More Book Signings at Book Revue!

BEN BAGLIO

Wednesday, July 14th, 7pm

Long Island author BEN BAGLIO will speak about and sign his new novel set during World War II, I’ll Be Seeing You.

In his previous novel, A String of Pearls, Ben Baglio used revisionist history to provide a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the attack itself, by imagining the lives and conversations of the men on the USS Arizona, Roosevelt and Churchill, and the Japanese pilots who carried out the attacks.

Now, in I’ll Be Seeing You, Baglio returns to the characters he introduced in A String of Pearls to explore what happened after Pearl Harbor, when Americans were called up to make the transition from civilian to soldier, and the country to shift from plowshare to sword. The reader watches Doolittle’s B-25’s bolt from the Hornet to bomb Tokyo, flies with a heroic torpedo squadron at Midway, convulses with
Marines on Guadalcanal, and witnesses German agents land on Long Island. What were the thoughts of Churchill and Roosevelt during these early days? Did it all have to happen as it did?

Dr. Ben Baglio has spent his career working as a public school educator and college professor. He is the author of the four-book World War II series From Infamy to Victory, as well as his nonfiction work Kid’s Are The Easy Part, an insider’s perspective on school reform. When not working as an educational consultant, he continues to write historical fiction. He lives with his wife on Long Island.