In this audio, Scott Brown speaks of the purpose of his book "Preparing Boys for Battle." In his book he has 16 things that he considers critical for a father to deliver to his son. He says that it is the father's responsibility to raise up there sons to be men and he hopes that this book will help them do that.

How to use this book. This is a handbook for dads to help them train their sons for battle. In this book you'll find lessons for manhood that arise from the World War II battle for Iwo Jima with its fighter planes, amphibious assaults, foxholes, cave warfare, and flamethrowers. It contains 16 critical exhortations that I believe fathers must deliver to their sons. Why?

To discipline them to be mighty warriors that God intends them to be. These were the things also that I told my own son David when he was growing up. This is a book about leading boys to be truly great boys, and someday men. It uses a personal, modern example, the example of my father and some other men I've met, to illustrate what God has already said in scripture. It's appropriate to remember the World War II generation.

That generation of warriors spent their youth laboring to eke out a living after the Depression. They forged their character on hard work and frugality. They were farm boys and clerks and ditch diggers. Most were not raised with silver spoons, and almost none of them had much leisure time. Then they went to war and saved Western civilization from the godless tyranny of Hirohito and Adolf Hitler.

A generation of heroes does not just pop out of nowhere, it is prepared by its fathers.