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The Long March Home has been named as the 2025 selection for One Book One Nebraska. The selection was announced at the Nebraska Celebration of Books on October 12.

The One Book One Nebraska reading program is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, and the Nebraska Library Commission. It encourages Nebraskans across the state to read and discuss the same book, chosen from books written by Nebraska authors or that have a Nebraska theme or setting. A Nebraska Center for the Book committee selected three finalists from a list of nineteen titles nominated by Nebraskans. Nebraska Center for the Book board members voted on the 2025 selection. The other two finalists were My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker by Roger Welsch and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

The Long March Home, by Marcus Brotherton and Nebraska author Tosca Lee, was inspired by true stories.

About the book:

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire.

Life in the Philippines seems like paradise—until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as Japanese warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history.

What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare: the Bataan Death March. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. But the ordeal is only the beginning of their nearly four-year fight to survive.