Brian C. Thompson (aka BT)

My great-uncle flew P-38 Lightnings, P-51 Mustangs, and P-39 Airacobras in the Pacific. Bronze Star. Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. Ground combat credit at Iwo Jima. Rose to Lieutenant Colonel. The family called him Uncle Gibby. I spent five years researching one question: What if America broke Japan’s naval codes before December 7, 1941? What if Pearl Harbor was a trap instead of a surprise? That became A Date with Infamy. No publisher. No agent. Just fifty years of family stories and five years of research. Book 1 is out now. Book 2, The Gathering Storm, is coming. amazon.com/dp/B0GHSW24S1

This Day in WW2 — May 6, 1942 Corregidor falls. General Wainwright surrenders the last U.S. forces in the Philippines. But MacArthur had made a promise: "I shall return." #ThisDayInWW2 #Corregidor

This Day in WW2 — May 5, 1945 German forces in the Netherlands surrender. Five years of occupation over. May 5 is still Liberation Day in the Netherlands. #ThisDayInWW2 #LiberationDay

This Day in WW2 — May 4, 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea begins. First naval battle where opposing ships never see each other. Every blow delivered by aircraft. The age of the carrier has arrived. #ThisDayInWW2 #CoralSea

This Day in WW2 — May 3, 1945 British forces liberate Rangoon, Burma. The longest land campaign the British fought in WW2. The "Forgotten Army" — most people have never heard of their victory. #ThisDayInWW2 #Burma

This Day in WW2 — May 2, 1945 Berlin surrenders. The Soviet flag flies over the Reichstag. Cost: ~80,000 Soviet soldiers killed taking the city. #ThisDayInWW2 #BattleOfBerlin

This Day in WW2 — May 1, 1945 Goebbels and his wife poison their six children, then kill themselves. Admiral Donitz assumes command. He has one job: surrender. #ThisDayInWW2

One month since launch. #1 New Release. Page reads doubling daily. Book 2 pre-orders at #3. This is just the beginning. The American War is a five-book series. Thank you for believing in this story. Book 1: a.co/d/0dW3dSlI Book 2: a.co/d/0d5r2Bcn

This Day in WW2 — April 30, 1945 Hitler shoots himself in his bunker. Eva Braun takes cyanide. Their bodies are burned. Soviet troops are 500 yards away. The war in Europe has eight days left. #ThisDayInWW2

What if Midway happened in December 1941 instead of June 1942? What if the U.S. didn't spend six months on the defensive? What if the Pacific War started with an American victory? A Date with Infamy answers all three. a.co/d/0dW3dSlI

This Day in WW2 — April 29, 1945 American soldiers liberate Dachau, the first concentration camp the Nazis ever built. Railroad cars packed with corpses. Thousands of emaciated prisoners. Never again. #ThisDayInWW2 #Dachau

Book 1: Hit #1 New Release in Military Strategy History. Book 2: Hit #3 in the same category on pre-orders alone. The American War series is finding its readers. Book 1: a.co/d/0dW3dSlI Book 2: a.co/d/0d5r2Bcn

This Day in WW2 — April 28, 1945 Mussolini is executed by partisans. His body hung upside down in Milan. In Berlin, Hitler learns of it. He vows it won't happen to him. Two days later, he is dead. #ThisDayInWW2

Raise your hand if you grew up on WWII stories from a family member. Grandfather? Great-uncle? Great-aunt? Those stories matter. They're why I wrote A Date with Infamy. Whose stories do you carry?

This Day in WW2 — April 27, 1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini fleeing to Switzerland. Tomorrow, he'll be executed and hung upside down at a Milan gas station. The first Axis dictator to fall. #ThisDayInWW2

Uncle Gibby started the war as a young pilot. He ended it as a Lieutenant Colonel. Bronze Star. Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. Four different aircraft types. Jack Gibson's journey mirrors his. A Date with Infamy is just the beginning. a.co/d/0dW3dSlI

This Day in WW2 — April 26, 1945 German forces win the Battle of Bautzen, one of the last successful counterattacks of the war. It changes nothing. Berlin is surrounded. #ThisDayInWW2

In The Gathering Storm, Jack Gibson visits Burbank and meets Kelly Johnson at Lockheed. What he sees in the Nevada desert changes everything. Some secrets are worth five books. Pre-order: a.co/d/0d5r2Bcn

This Day in WW2 — April 25, 1945 American and Soviet soldiers meet at the Elbe River. Germany is cut in two. The handshake at the Elbe — one of the most iconic images of the war. #ThisDayInWW2 #ElbeDay

What if Roosevelt wasn't caught off guard on December 7th? What if he was the one who set the trap? A Date with Infamy. The attack still comes. America is waiting. a.co/d/0dW3dSlI #FDR #AlternateHistory #WWII

This Day in WW2 — April 24, 1945 Himmler secretly offers to surrender to the West — but not the Soviets. Rejected. When Hitler finds out, he orders Himmler's arrest. The Nazi leadership is eating itself alive. #ThisDayInWW2