Maj. Roger G.B. Broome died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has used research skills to find her lost father. For this biography, she makes full use of an extensive collection of her father's colourful and articulate letters along with the testimony of surviving Leathernecks who served with Major Broome, backed up by official records.