Much respect is due to Barbara Tuchman for her books The Proud Tower and The Guns of August; Joseph Persico for his Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour; and to William Orpen’s An Onlooker in France, 1917–1919. These books are requiems.
Most especially, thank you to my family—Robert, Sue, Lincoln, and Chana—the best of the better angels.
About the Author
JOSH RITTER is a songwriter from Moscow, Idaho. His albums include The Animal Years and So Runs the World Away. Bright’s Passage is his first novel. He currently lives in New York.
www.joshritter.com