[american nightingale]

"(Frances Slanger's) story, and Welch's treatment of it, has the golden cast of Saving Private Ryan."
— Ellen Heltzel, Book Babes

"Welch has done the country a service by recalling Frances Slanger's Story. ...enrich your life and read this touching story."
— James Bradley, best-selling author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys

"Through indefatigable research and a nearly obsessive quest to inhabit a great moment in time, Bob Welch achieves something rare among works of military history: He brings one person, a single extraordinary person, to vivid life upon the page. Read American Nightingale, and you'll never think of D-Day in the same way again. "
—Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and American

American Nightingale has received widespread media coverage, incuding a June 2004 segment on ABC's "Good Morning America." In addition, it's been featured in the Boston Globe, The Oregonian The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and Los Angeles Times Magazine.