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Wild Blue

by Coleen W. Cain

398 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1952; ISBN 1-4120-4145-7; US$26.72, C$30.73, EUR21.95, £15.36

This comprehensive World War II story explores a new niche in American literature, providing an historical view of young women, their families and communities in relation to combat pilots at war.

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About the Book Written in three parts, Wild Blue explores a new niche in World War II American literature. It gives an inside view of the young women, their families, and communities, along with national politics and their relations with their counterpart combat pilots at war. Cain reveals how Paula and her peers brought about the greatest revolution in America since 1776. Paula Roncourt, West Texas artist, fights "The Battle of Texas" while her pilot husband, Garner Cameron, commands missions over Germany. Paula, secretary to the Commanding Officer at Goodfellow Air Corps Base, suffers when Garner is shot down over the English Channel, then later, is Missing In Action. Wild Blue's poignant story affirms the strength of our country's young women and combat pilots pulling together to save America and the world for freedom.

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About the Author Born in Iowa, Coleen W.Cain took her degree in Journalism. Her passion is to show the truth behind the facts. In Wild Blue, she reveals how Paula and her peers brought about the greatest revolution in America since the Revolutionary War of 1776. Ms. Cain's assignments have taken her across the country as newspaper editor, copy reporter-photographer, and script writer, and foreign news correspondent from Beijing, PRC, as an op-ed page columnist for the Journal American of Bellevue, Washington. She is listed in the Marquis Who's Who as Writer/Educator. Ms. Cain is in her tenth year as instructor for Writer's Tune Up, a critique class given weekly at the North Bellevue Community Center. The City of Bellevue has awarded her a Certificate of Excellence. Her clients, for who she also does editing of their manuscripts, include novelists, film writers, poets, and writers of memoirs. In addition, Ms. Cain is owner of the book publishing firm, Grazel-Pierce Publishers, Issaquah, WA. While she has not given her date of birth, she is of "The Greatest Generation" and is widely traveled.

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