KYL - Author - Michael Eckers

Description

Michael Eckers has studied the history of America and our military for more than 50 years. He is retired from Federal service including four years in the U S Navy during the Vietnam era. Michael now resides in Webster City; for most of the past decade, he has traveled the country, speaking and writing. He is an active supporter of numerous historical and veteran groups in the Midwest. Michael has written three books on the American Civil War. Wisconsin Iron is a novel about a young man in the Iron Brigade while The Boys of Wasioja is a non-fiction work chronicling the experiences of Company C of the Second Minnesota Infantry from Dodge County. Northern Colors is the Civil War segment of a series which will chronicle the generations of a family from the American Revolution through todays War on Terror. Colors in the Earth is the story of a Minnesota doughboy and an American nurse in France during The Great War. Another in this series is Colors in the Air; the tale of a young bombardier in the U S Eighth Air Force and his new bride. The two must test their love through the separation and carnage of World War II. The Colors series are based on Michaels own family ancestry. He is currently working on Sunset Colors; about the end of the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American conflict in Cuba. His newest project, entitled Five For Freedom; is a story of a young war correspondent searching for his four high school basketball team mates from Iowa. All are serving in different military branches during The Second World War, scattered around the world. Besides writing, Michael enjoys sharing his knowledge of our history by speaking to groups, from roundtables to school classrooms. He brings with him an engaging style of presentation, combining serious learning with enjoyable anecdotes.