This story - part memoir, part historical fiction - spans a period of
one hundred years, from 1914 to 2014, with the main emphasis being on
the years of the two World Wars. It concentrates on the lives of real
people -the author's parents, the author, a young pilot from New Jersey
in WW1, and others - as well as some fictional characters, who all lived
through one or both of the wars and were profoundly affected personally
by them. Arise the Dead I focuses on World War I where the author's dad
took part in the Battle of Loos (September 1915) and where he was
wounded.