A Dawn Like Thunder
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROBERT J. MRAZEK is a former five-term congressman who authored laws to preserve the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the Manassas Civil War battlefield in Virginia. He also wrote the Amerasian Homecoming Act, which brought home the children of American military personnel from Vietnam, and the National Film Preservation Act, which established the Federal Film Registry in the Library of Congress. Since his retirement from Congress, he has served on the boards of numerous charitable organizations, including ten years as the cofounder and chairman of the Alaska Wilderness League.
In 1999, his first book, Stonewall’s Gold, won the Michael Shaara Prize for the best Civil War novel of the year. In 2007, his third novel, The Deadly Embrace, earned him the W. Y. Boyd Prize for excellence in military fiction. His books have been published in fourteen countries around the world.
1 *To integrate the complex action of the events that took place on the morning of June 4, 1942, the author chose to synthesize the time differences between the Japanese and American forces, and used local Midway time (Greenwich Zone + 12) for all of the forces concerned. (back to text)