Battlegrounds

The title of the book is Battleground, and the story is not just about the physical battlegrounds in World War II, although the reader is supplied with a very real sense of place and time leading up to and during these battles. There are more battlegrounds in everyone's life, and this story places many human battlegrounds with the physical battlegrounds as the backdrop.

There is the battle between the branches of the USA military, Army versus Navy versus Marines. The Secretary of the Navy has so little factual information coming from the front line he must employ devious means to assist him in making the best decisions. Within the Navy and Marines there is a battle between the officers and the enlisted men and between career Navy men and the ones who are brought out of retirement. There is an ongoing battle to establish procedures and processes to...