Sweeping, provocative, and compassionate, The Wild Trumpet Call reveals how the experience of war transformed the youthful ambitions and dreams of returning WWII veterans in ways that shaped post-war America.The reader is quickly caught up in the actions of the story's protagonists, who typify those who ignited this change in history. The characters and events that fill these pages are moving, dynamic, and show how even the most noble of hopes and wishes born out of harrowing events in the past can be thwarted by fate or tragedy in the present.