Frank Bonham (1914–1988)

Everything in Dogtown, including the Boys Club, was run down and beat up. The Health Department wanted to close the Club because it was full of rats and cockroaches. But that only meant that kids like Buddy Williams, Johnny Pastelito, Rich Smith, and Cool Hawkins would be out on the street again with no place to go. They didn't want trouble. They just wanted to raise money to save the old place. Once they started looking, though, things began to pop. Before long, the whole town was in on the search for a very rich and mysterious cat.… (more)

In June, 1944, Tom and Andy Croft, Eighteen-year-old twins, enlisted in the 106th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. They believed, as did the Allied Forces and Army intelligence, that the Germans had been permanently put to rout after the Normandy Invasion. It seemed a military impossibility that the Third Reich could plan—much less launch—a counteroffensive.
And the, on December 16,1944, Hitler's army broke through the thin line of American defense provided by the 106th Division in the Ardennes mountains. The Battle of the Bulge had begun.
Suddenly, Tom and Andy found themselves part, not of a victorious army, but of an army whose lines had been broken, whose communications had been all but destroyed, and whose commanding headquarters had less of an idea about what was going on than did the small bands of men roaming the countryside in search of leadership.
Before the German counteroffensive began, Tom and Andy had become separated. For the first time in their lives, in the chaos that followed the enemy breakthrough, each was on his own. This is the story of their separate experiences during the first days of the Battle of the Bulge.… (more)