Thanks to Amy Bruno of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, I’m giving away on print copy of Maggie’s Wars.
Book Description:
Combating wars on two fronts – one of fame and the other love – Maggie Hogan never wavers as a rare woman reporter on the battlefields of World War II, the Nuremburg Trials and the beginnings of the cold war. But she makes the mistake of falling for an officer, complicating her ambitions.
Learn of what one woman feels she must do in order to make it in a man’s world, no matter what. Maggie’s Wars is a story about the ultimate battle between love and prestige, and how you can’t win them both.
Praise for Maggie’s Wars:
“Maggie’s Wars is a highly charged story, with power politics on a grand scale…the frighteningly realistic descriptions and technical know-how is right on the mark and Phil Pisani’s skill at painting a vivid scene in the mind’s eye of the reader is excellent and packs a wallop.” –William H. LaBarge, author of Sweetwater Gunslinger 201, Hornet’s Nest, Road to Gold and Desert Voices
About Phil Pisani:
Phil Pisani grew up on the north side of the railroad tracks in an upstate New York blue-collar industrial town in a rough neighborhood filled with the most colorful characters in the world. Factory and tannery workers mingled with bar and restaurant owners, gamblers and gangsters, good people and bad people, brash rogues and weak loudmouths, all spawned by the early immigrant movement to America.
Italians, Russians, Slovacks, Irish, and Germans formed a rough and tough section of town where few from the south side dared to venture. He learned to fight at a very young age, both in the ring and on the streets. Fights became badges of honor.
He also was a voracious reader. His mother worked in the village’s library. After school, or fights or sandlot football games he would curl away into the adult reading section. Enjoying the polished blonde oak bookshelves, tables and chairs, he would choose a book from the stacks and delve into its smells and contents. Reading soothed him.
He studied history and humanities in Pisa, Italy, and Oswego State in New York and later earned a MA in Political Science from Binghamton University.
He worked as a labor investigator for NY and rose in the ranks through the years but never stopped writing or reading. He currently lives in Albany NY, with his wife Joanne.
For more information please visit Phil Pisani’s website. You can also connect with him on Facebook and Twitter.
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I enjoy books set in this time period, and Maggie sounds like an interesting character. Thanks for the giveaway, Teddy.
This novel is captivating for the story, setting and era which is my favorite. Thanks.
Lately I’ve been reading books from the World War II era that focus on the involvement of women. Thank you for the giveaway!
I think Maggie’s vocation is interesting for the time period. Thanks!
Thank you for hosting this giveaway, Teddy, and for filling us in with some insight on this book. The thematic focus on a woman struggling to find fulfillment through action in public life (a professional career usually) is one that resonates with me a great deal based on my value of that element of my own life. Regardless of the great empathy such a work will likely draw upon as I read, historical fiction with any real accuracy underlying it and any fiction dealing seriously with social inequalities is bound to stimulate intellectually, IMHO. So there are all sorts of draws for me with this book, in sum!
Maggie Hogan entered a profession, that would be difficult but exciting for any news reporter during this important and dangerous time in world history. This novel should be a must read.
I am interested in reading about the war and the love story. Sounds like an amazing book.
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