Two Sides to One Coin - Part One: Before the World Changed

In 1929, Minoru Yamamoto and Jimmy Turner are simply two boys growing up thousands of miles apart.Minoru's world lies beneath Mount Fuji, shaped by family, tradition and the quiet expectations of a Japan already beginning to change.Jimmy's is a South Carolina farm, where machinery, hard work and his father's steady hand make the world seem understandable.For a time, childhood protects them both.But history is moving closer.In Japan, duty begins to ask more of young men. In America, distant events are still talked about across kitchen tables and radios. What begins as politics, speeches and newspaper headlines slowly reaches into homes, families and futures.By the time war finally arrives, neither Minoru nor Jimmy will be quite the person he expected to become.And for one of them, the first steps into war will demand far more than courage.Two Sides to One Coin - Part One is a richly researched historical novel about two young lives shaped on opposite sides of a world edging towards conflict.It is a story of family, upbringing, duty and the moments when ordinary people first realise that history is no longer something happening somewhere else.