Disgracefully Easy

"This is a superb compilation of wartime letters." -Karl Zingheim, Historian, USS Midway Museum, and Adjunct Faculty, San Diego State University

"The combination of Tom Hanchett's research and his father's collected letters make this an interesting story, beautifully told..." -âDr. Paul Hoffman, Director, Air University Press, USAF Air Education and Training Command

"In Disgracefully Easy, [Bill's] thoughtful and perceptive letters to his parents open a window onto the feelings, frustrations, and experiences of 'those who also served,' as well as a running commentary on how young men of his time felt about politics, duty, the war, and the postwar future to come." -William C. Davis, Civil War Historian, prolific author, and recent co-editor of The Wharton's War. 

"Disgracefully Easy is an important contribution to our understanding of World War II. This book tells the story of one of those greatest generation individuals, who felt the call to service. Bill returned to civilian life and rose to be one of the nation's leading scholars on Abraham Lincoln. His letters home provide insight into the war years and will be useful to scholars and history buffs alike." - Dr. Brian D. Laslie, Command Historian at the United States Air Force Academy, and author of Fighting From Above: A Combat History of the U.S. Air Force

"As time progresses there continues to be an avalanche of books about World War II. But there are very few about the citizens who fought it, their sacrifices, lives and deaths, and the heart they gave up into it. Now along comes Disgracefully Easy, a true-to-life life book that uneasily tells it like it was. Here's your chance to see the war from the bottom up versus the top down." -Peter Stekel, Author of Final Flight and Beneath Haunted Waters.