Two things, one research

He left school at fifteen to join it and was running it at seventeen. The book is the whole of it, from the inside — the units, the vehicles, the people, and what it took to feed a crew in a field before first light.

The title is not settled, and will not be until there is a publisher to settle it with. The cover below is a concept — the author line on it is a placeholder.

Built from recorded conversations, the family's archive, and whatever the people who were there are willing to share. The research is the urgent part — the people who can still remember any of it are not getting younger.

Nothing anyone sends is used without asking them first.