The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II [Paperback]

Could you find the courage to do whats right in a world on fire?

Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.

An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messmans life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese . . . a young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war . . . a black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion.

Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front,The Last Thing You Surrenderexplores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. What does it take to change someones mind about race?What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed?

• HISTORICAL FICTION PAGE-TURNER:Combines the accessible prose and old-fashioned storytelling of Pittss previous novels with a deeply researched historical setting
• CELEBRATED AUTHOR:Author is a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist with a three-times-weekly newspaper column syndicated nationally in 200+ newspapers in dozens of major US markets
• PROVEN TRACK RECORD:Pittss 2012 novel,Freeman, was a national bestseller, with rave reviews fromAll Things Considered, theWashington Post, andPublishers Weekly, as well as endorsements by Jennifer Weiner, Gabrielle Union, and Gwen Ifill
• MASSIVE PLATFORM:Author has an engaged, passionate, and steadillãâ