Read more praise & reviews“This is fine writing…a compelling tale. I can see why people are so interested in this writer.”C. Michael Curtis, Atlantic Monthly
A Rose in No Man’s Land was released in November of 2011 by Book Guild, a publishing company based in the United Kingdom. Set in Flanders and France during World War I, A Rose in No Man’s Land opens with Frank Harrington’s first trip to collect wounded British soldiers in his American Field Service ambulance. After making the perilous journey under German bombardment, he allows himself a brief respite and meets Kit Stanley, which changes everything.
John Kerr’s first novel, Cardigan Bay, was published by Corona in 2008. Not only a love story, Cardigan Bay incorporates some of the most important and dramatic events of the Second World War, including the detailed planning for the Normandy invasion, the secret code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park, and the plot to assassinate Hitler. Kerr also co-authored Only A Khaki Shirt, A Memoir of the Pacific War with his late father, Baine Kerr, which the Admiral Nimitz Foundation published in 2006.
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John Caldwell Kerr was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where he graduated from St. John’s School. He received a BA from Stanford University, where he studied history, literature, and poetry, and a JD from the University of Texas. In addition to a diverse business career, he has been writing, primarily fiction, for the past fifteen years, which has been strongly influenced by his life-long study of European and American history. He has also been actively involved in civic and community affairs, chairing the Texas Advisory Board of the Environmental Defense Fund and serving as board chairman of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the Admiral Nimitz Foundation, which oversees the National Museum of the Pacific War.
Kerr resides in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, two dogs, and pesky African Gray Parrot.
“This is fine writing…a compelling tale. I can see why people are so interested in this writer.”C. Michael Curtis, Atlantic Monthly
“A compelling tapestry of intrigue and romance out of complex political threads often overlooked by other novelists. The result is a satisfying, comprehensively researched novel that tells the story of the greatest invasion of all time…”San Antonio Express-News
“I enjoyed Cardigan Bay very much. I would be delighted to direct it if the opportunity arose.”James Cellan-Jones, British film director
“The theme of courage mingled with ambivalent attitudes toward the war is unforgettable. John Kerr gives the reader a new understanding of Irish neutrality, the thuggery of the IRA, and the moral resistance among a few officers of the Wehrmacht to the Nazi regime.”British Scholar (selected for Book of the Month)
“Set against the backdrop of Ireland, England and Wales in World War II, Cardigan Bay is a wonderfully crafted story [with] intriguing, quirky side characters, and great descriptive details of living and loving in the war years.”Irish American News
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Available for purchase through Book Guild Barnes and Noble Amazon
Available Summer 2012
Available for purchase through Corona Publishing Barnes and Noble Amazon
Available for purchase through Admiral Nimitz Foundation