“Pearl Harbor: One Year Later” by Carol Frenzen is a memoir of World War II that tells the true story of a young woman from Berwyn, Illinois, who left her studies at the University of Wisconsin, hired on as a civilian government employee, and moved to wartime Hawaii to work at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the darkest days of the war in the Pacific.
“I know now that I was part of what Tom Brokaw has termed ‘The Greatest Generation.’ This is history, as it never again will be experienced. Every day I worked in Pearl Harbor for the Navy’s Planning Section and at Kaneohe as the secretary for a Naval commander at IFCHA was a link to the end of the war,” said Frenzen.
The book was recently released by Wright and Wright Publishers.
Frenzen was also a correspondent to her hometown newspaper, The Berwyn Beacon; copies of her columns about the local soldiers who visited her and her husband at their house in the foothills of Diamond Head are included in the book.
Now that members of this wartime generation are dying off, “Pearl Harbor: One Year Later” will help the generations that follow understand what happened in the lives of a young married couple as they witnessed the onslaught of war.
The audience for this book includes WWII history buffs, fellow members of The Greatest Generation, and readers who appreciate the contradictions and mysteries inherent in life.
Frenzen has lived in Illinois, Hawaii, California, and Colorado. She is the author of multiple magazine and newspaper articles. “Pearl Harbor: One Year Later” is her first nonfiction book.
Info: www.wrightandwrightpublishers.com.