Affair & Honor: Based on the True Story of JFK in World War ll, by Batt Humphreys
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In the spring of 1942 the nation is at war. A young ensign is in trouble. He’s in Naval Intelligence and he’s been banished to a small southern base because of a scandalous affair with a suspected spy that has drawn the attention of the F.B.I. and the White House. She is a beautiful Dane who once knew Hitler. He is the son of an ousted ambassador. Jack Kennedy is caught between love, and a hard place. Kennedy struggles between the conflicts of his affair and his drive to join the war in combat. Young, smitten, sick and sidelined he watches while his friends take the path to glory and his father conspires to keep him safe. Young Jack works his own schemes and lands in the South Pacific. Based on the true story, Affair & Honor reprises one of the most incredible tales of battle, destruction and survival in World War Two. It also brings to a new audience the story of a young man, who risked life and fortune, to fight for his crew and his country. Two Kennedy brothers went to war. Only one survived to become President of the United States.
Affair & Honor: Based on the True Story of JFK in World War ll, by Batt Humphreys- Amazon Sales Rank: #1047275 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-10
- Released on: 2015-05-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Batt Humphreys is a former network news executive. During 20 years with CBS he managed the coverage events that have shaped our lives over a quarter century including wars, elections, leading the coverage of the morning of 9/11 and occasional stories that warmed the human heart. In 2010 he turned to fiction with the release of his first novel, Dead Weight. Dead Weight was the recipient of the 2010 Palmetto Award, the IPPY Gold Medal award, the Benjamin Franklin award and a finalist for the SIBA fiction award and Book of the Year by Foreword Magazine. Affair & Honor is his second novel.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. JFK IN A NOVEL: A PROFILE IN COURAGE By KOMET This novel captures a part of the life of John F. Kennedy that focuses on his military service in the Second World War. (Unlike his older brother Joe Jr., who enjoyed robust health and was the one designated by their father for a political career postwar that would culminate in him being elected President of the U.S., JFK was at times sickly and suffered from a bad back. He had tried to enlist in the Army a few months prior to Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected. It took the influence of JFK's father to get him a place in the Navy, serving in Naval Intelligence in Washington DC.)The story begins in Charleston, SC in April 1942, where JFK had been reassigned, perhaps because of the affair he had had in Washington with Inga Arvad, a Danish journalist suspected by the FBI of being a Nazi spy. A journalist by the name of Sam Marlow of the New York Herald Tribune was also there, ostensibly to get the scoop on JFK's relationship with Arvad, who had come to Charleston to spend some time with him. The author cleverly inserts Marlow as a Zelig-like character (together with his girlfriend, Ashley Chambliss, a popular singer with family in Charleston), who meets both JFK and Arvad. Among some other real historical figures who play roles great and small in this novel are Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy (JFK's sister, with whom he was especially close); George Mead, a Marine lieutenant and scion of a wealthy paper magnate; Tommy Hitchcock, a First World War air hero and renowned as America's finest polo player; J. Edgar Hoover; Joe Kennedy Sr.; Charlie Chaplin; and Joe Kennedy, Jr.At that stage of the war, Charleston is representative of the country as it went about the process of throwing off its prewar lethargy and fully immersing itself fully in the war effort. Rationing had yet to firmly take hold in this grand old Southern town. I liked the way the author fleshed out Sam and Ashley's relationship and their friendships with the Kennedys and their social circle in Charleston. Eventually, JFK, after persistent efforts to get transferred to a more active command that he hoped would get him into combat, wangles his way into training and service with a PT boat squadron in the South Pacific during the spring of 1943. PT boat service is regarded as especially hazardous, as these are fast-moving ships largely constructed from plywood with some armor protection and armed with machine guns and torpedoes for harassing Japanese shipping in hit and run missions. (Sam, however, gets into the war a bit earlier, as a war correspondent. His dispatches, which the author periodically inserts in the novel, help to push it along.)My only major complaint with "Affair & Honor" is that it could have stood for some rigorous editing. Otherwise, this is a novel that gives the reader a glimpse into the character of the man who would later be elected in 1960 as the 35th President of the U.S..
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating look at Kennedy before he was President By Nicole Seitz Affair & Honor by Batt Humphreys makes accessible a fascinating part of US history that many fiction readers might normally miss. Based on the true story of John F. Kennedy when he was a young man, the engaging tale is narrated by Sam Marlow, a newspaper journalist, who begins his journey in Charleston, SC while following Kennedy and his suspected spy lover. Full of historical details and intrigue about J. Edgar Hoover and even Charlie Chaplin, Humphreys brings the past and the South Pacific alive. He alternates with ease between characters and fully embodies them. Aside from some typographical errors, the book beckons the reader to go deeper into the love-and-war affairs of Kennedy...before he was President. Time well spent.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Part History, Part Fiction, Completely Entertaining! By John L. Just finished Affair & Honor, and loved it. It is part fact, part fiction, but completely enjoyable! Batt Humphreys takes you all over the world, at a time when the US was just getting into World War II. Charleston, S.C., Hollywood, Australia, London and of course, the South Pacific, to name just a few.I'll be honest, I was not aware of the affair which the book is based on, so learning the details of it was quite a treat. It also has a wonderful cast of historical "characters" such as, JFK, Inga Arvad, and J. Edgar Hoover, to name a few. You can tell that Mr. Humphreys did a great deal of research to keep the story historically accurate, and using the fictional character Sam Marlow to tell the story, made it a FUN history lesson.Many of us have heard the story of JFK during World War II, but this story includes a precursor to it, and a postscript. If you enjoy history, you will enjoy this book. I highly recommend it.
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