The Chow-Hound
by Bruce Brittain
The ordinary yet extraordinary WWII story of courage, sacrifice, gratitude, remembrance, coincidence and small miracles.
The Chow-hound, a B17G of the 91st Bomb Group, flying missions out of Bassingbourn, England, was so named by its first combat crew. Its nose art was painted by the same artist who painted the Memphis Belle and nearly 300 other combat aircraft. On August 8, 1944, the Chow-hound was shot down over Normandy and all nine crewmen perished. In the broad sweep of global war, this combat loss was a mere footnote. However, because of subsequent decisions by businessmen in the U.S., unlikely coincidences, the miracle of modern-day DNA testing and the efforts of both French and American citizens to remember and memorialize the plane and crew, the Chow-hound story breaks out of the statistics. Every combat loss sends out ripples into the future. Some of those ripples are quite amazing.
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Marriage Roulette
by Bruce Brittain
The odds of having a long and happy marriage in America today are only one out of four. The facts are that two of every four marriages end in divorce and one of every four couples endures a marriage in which they are not happy. Marrying is likely the biggest emotional and financial gamble that anyone makes; shouldn’t there be a way of improving the odds of success? Absolutely, and this book can help! Through careful analysis of good, bad, and failed marriages, BJ Brittain has identified the seven key factors that distinguish a successful marriage from all the others: mutual respect, humor, shared values, sexual compatibility, effective communication, emotional and intellectual fit, and tolerance. Marriage Roulette provides insight and illustration on how to recognize good fits and bad for these seven factors. If marriage is in your future, you owe it to yourself to improve your odds.
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Brother Daniel’s
Good News Revival
by Bruce Brittain
IN THE EARLY SUMMER of 1933, an 18-year-old naive Kentucky farm boy, Michael Boone, becomes a driver for a traveling religious revival troupe. As the summer unfolds and the itinerant group moves from town to town, he learns that things are not what they seem; primarily that the goal of the enterprise is making money, not saving souls and that hardly anyone in the group fits into a neat and normal family narrative. Michael, in turns, is exposed to religious hypocrisy, the world of good literature, the destructiveness of alcohol abuse, pedophilia, overt racism, first true loves, near tragedy and selflessness. He is also skillfully tutored in the art of seduction and sex. The full impact of Michael’s time with Brother Daniel’s Good News Revival is only learned many years after the summer of ’33. It is a revelation that shakes the foundation of the life he had since built.
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