The world was on the brink of another war, and Chuck Bowman headed out for a bike ride.
In any other decade, my great-uncle Chuck’s voyage might have been a leisurely sightseeing trip, but when the newly minted West Point grad trekked through Europe on a bicycle in 1939, he was seeing the beginnings of a global conflict.
As detailed in his war diary, Chuck’s trip seems ominous only with the benefit of hindsight.
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