- 2025 Bronze Medal, Military Writers Society of America
- One of Four was selected as the Outstanding “Historical Fiction: 20th Century” Category Winner.
- Cover Design and Hemingway Chanticleer Int’l Book Award First Place Win for Fiction Covers and 20th Century Wartime Fiction
- FINALIST in the 2024 American Writing Awards!
- 2024 International Impact. Book Award Winner
From New York Harbor to the battlefields of France, relive World War I through the eyes of an unknown soldier, as told through his diary. See how the 100-year-old diary brings a father and his estranged son back together by retracing his experiences fighting in the battlefields of France in 1917 - 1918 to his final resting place—the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
His diary was found next to his lifeless body by a young French girl who witnessed his death and bravery as he tried to protect his fellow soldiers. How the unknown soldier felt and what he experienced fighting on the Western Front in World War One —his day-to-day struggles and life as a private and then as an NCO. As he led his men into combat. The pride and fear he felt and the overwhelming stress he encountered, sometimes frozen with fear from the sheer brutality of modern warfare, from all sides. His bravery in combat and leadership in training and on the battlefield. How he coped as he watched his fellow soldiers, battle buddies, and friends die one after another. Some from battlefield injuries from conventional weapons and gas attacks, but also diseases from the unsanitary conditions of trench warfare and influenza. His only wish was to come out alive, a wish that would never come true.
But return home, he did.
Travis Davis is an Air Force Brat and grew up in Arkansas, Spain, New York, and California. He joined the US Army at 17 as an Armored Reconnaissance Specialist and was stationed at various forts in the United States and Germany, where he met his beautiful wife. During his three tours in Germany, he conducted hundreds of border patrols along the East-West German border and the Czechoslovakia-West German border. After seeing communism and its oppression of its citizens firsthand, he retired from the US Army, where his last duty assignment was as Assistant Operations Sergeant of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He is a lifetime member of the Sergeant Morales Club. Travis has received multiple awards, including the Meritorious Service Medal and five Army Commendation Medals. While not writing or working, Travis enjoys exercising, traveling (loves a good road trip), baking different loaves of bread, and relaxing in his backyard with friends and family while having a cold beer. He currently lives in Cabot, Arkansas, with his wife of 39 years. He has three adult children: two daughters living in Arkansas, one son living in Northern Virginia, and five wonderful grandchildren. Travis also hosts Book and a Beer and a top-rated podcast, Author Ecke, where he interviews authors worldwide. "Travis never met a stranger," his wife always says.
