Winner of the 2012 Tyler R. Tichelaar award for Best Historical Fiction.

IN THE SUMMER OF 1969 elements of the 101st Airborne went back to the A Shau Valley in South Vietnam.

IN THE SUMMER OF 1864 the 10th Vermont, part of General Ricketts’ Third Division, marched into the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

SAM KENSINGTON WAS AT BOTH CAMPAIGNS.

Don Meyer is a writer and speaker. He is the author of six books, including Jennifer’s Plan, Winter Ghost, McKenzie Affair, Uncle Denny, The American War, and the Vietnam War memoir The Protected Will Never Know.

Meyer’s historical novel, The American War is the winner of historical fiction category in the 2012 ReaderViews Literary Awards. Additionally, the novel won the ReaderViews Tyler R. Tichelaar Award for Best Historical Fiction.