PURSUING TESS: A Wartime Love Story

By Maurice Russell

This is a war story, a coming-of-age story, but mostly a love story.The late 1960s were years of tense uncertainties, especially for men and women in their teens and early 20s. To further complicate already confused young lovers, men just graduating from high school faced a military draft, hungry for 18-year-olds. Women just graduating from high school worried over what would happen to their boyfriends.To add to the anxiety of the age, violent street and campus demonstrations erupted, protesting . . . well, except for the protesters most people did not understand what all the outrage was about.Fear and anger heated the rhetoric that ignited "racial" hostilities.All of these clashes migrated into the military ranks with the new recruits. Bob was a new recruit . . . Bob and Tess were two confused young lovers . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1070967289
• ISBN13: 9781070967288
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"