The Last Ring Home: A Pow's Lasting Legacy of Courage, Love, and Honor in World War II - Hardcover

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<p><b>Minter Dial</b> is a professional speaker, history fanatic, and president and founder of Digitalproof Consultancy, a strategic firm providing digital and brand consulting to clients including Kering Group, Samsung, Google and L&#8217;Ore´al. He's also author of <i>Futureproof, How to get your business ready for the next disruption</i> (Pearson-FT Press Sep 2017). Alumni of Eton College, he received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University and earned his MBA at INSEAD (Fontainebleau).</p>

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Traveling forty thousand miles and inspiring love and despair in equal measure, Lt. Minter Dial’s lost Annapolis ring altered the lives of many—not just those who gazed upon its blue stone.

The spellbinding account of one man’s obsession with a family secret— and the product of decades of research and inquiries—The Last Ring Home explores author Minter Dial’s pursuit of the true story of his namesake, his late grandfather Lt. Minter Dial, USn, a celebrated war hero whose mysterious, horrific death nearly buried his memory forever.

A prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, Lt. Dial discovered the cruelest meaning of the Bushido code. Moments before he was killed, he gave his treasured Naval Academy ring to a friend. In the ensuing chaos, it disappeared.

Armed with a passion for history and his grandfather’s legacy, Dial’s epic quest for the ring transports him to prisoner-of-war memorials and ex-POW conventions, military and press archives, and the homes of those affected by the Second World War across the world. Sweeping as far back as the American Civil War, The Last Ring Home combines rigorous research with more than one hundred interviews with experts, survivors, and descendants of the Greatest Generation to tell the powerful story of American prisoners of war in the Pacific.