Tommy · A World War II Novel

**A mathematician finds himself in the midst of the Pacific War in this "historical novel that can be appreciated by anyone, not just the history buffs" (*Scene *magazine).**

April 1945: In the aftermath of the battle for Okinawa, Tommy stands on the deck of the USS *Bataan*, the Independence-class aircraft carrier that he's called home for a year. Once, he was a student in the classrooms of MIT. Now, thousands of miles away, he is surrounded by horrors--but uses his mathematical and navigational expertise to do his best to minimize the casualties.

In this novel, William Illsey Atkinson tells the story of Japan's Operation Ten-Go, and the fierce battle that sent dozens of vessels to their watery grave while hundreds of others were damaged from the air. *Tommy* spans the vast experience of one man's life, from his hardscrabble childhood in early twentieth-century Dorris, California, to his heroic efforts in the South Pacific and beyond.