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Sally Mott Freeman, Award-Winning Writer of The Jersey Brothers

The Jersey Brothers is an extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history—and save one of the brothers captured by the Japanese. All Navy men, they end up...

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