Publisher's Synopsis
Fields of Honor, Rivers of Grief
The Untold Story of Theodore Roosevelt's Sons and Their War, Wilderness, and Legacy
By McCord Somerville
They were born into power but walked paths their father never could have imagined.
Ted Roosevelt Jr., the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, charged onto the shores of Normandy on D-Day with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other. Calm under fire and decades past his prime, he became the only general to land in the first wave and the only one to die shortly after.
Kermit Roosevelt, quiet, brilliant, and fiercely loyal, dragged his malaria-stricken father through the Amazon. Later, he hunted pandas in uncharted China, wrote from the front lines of WWI Mesopotamia, and mastered five languages. But no expedition could outpace the storm within him.
Raised in the shadow of a president, Ted and Kermit carved their own names into history through war, wilderness, and heartbreak. From deadly trenches in France to the jungles of South America, from panda diplomacy to political scandal, this is not the story of privilege it's the story of pressure, of service, and of the quiet cost of trying to live up to a legacy.
What drove one brother to storm Omaha Beach and the other to drink alone in Alaska?
Why did a panda expedition meant for science become a moment that would shape global conservation for generations?
And what did it truly mean to be a Roosevelt... when the world expected you to be more than a man?
Fields of Honor, Rivers of Grief pulls back the curtain on two forgotten sons who lived, fought and broke under the weight of one of America's most powerful names. With untold details, intimate letters, and the raw humanity behind public service, this is the story history books skipped.
Discover the brothers who bore a president's name only to find that legacy is a battlefield of its own.
