Fellowship of Dust: Retracing the WWII Journey of Sergeant Frank Shaw

I began this project for personal reasons: my uncle had made an enormous personal sacrifice for his family and his country; yet, because of his silence, no one in my family ever fully knew what he endured. As the last living relative who knew him, I felt a responsibility to rescue his story from the shadows before it disappeared forever and to preserve it as a source of pride for my family and me.

But a second reason for telling my uncle's story materialized as I assembled the details of his...