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Book Synopsis World War II Letters by : Bill Adler
Download or read book World War II Letters written by Bill Adler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers from twenty Allied and Axis countries are gathered in this unique collection of letters from servicemen and -women to their friends, families, and sweethearts. World War II Letters gives an unbiased look into the lives of those who served throughout the world-in Europe, the Pacific, Northern Africa, and Asia-and gives an intimate and honest portrayal of their experiences. Wide ranging in scope, World War II Letters includes writings by officers and infantry, nurses and doctors, pilots, POWs, those injured in action, killed in action, and those reported missing. Introductory biographies and photographs vividly capture the letter writers' lives before, during, and after the war. The writers of the letters in this powerful collection express their own views of "the enemy," give their impressions of countries far away from home, describe battle by land, sea, and air, and recount war's atrocities and its rare humorous moments. Ultimately, World War II Letters provides a revealing and unforgettable journey through the war of the century.
Book Synopsis Letters from the Greatest Generation by : Howard H. Peckham
Download or read book Letters from the Greatest Generation written by Howard H. Peckham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II. Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each page, and their voices ring loud and clear. “It’s all part of the game but it’s bloody and rough,” writes one soldier to his wife. “Wearing two stripes now and as proud as an old cat with five kittens,” remarks another. Yet, as many countries rejoiced on V-E Day, this book reveals that soldiers were “too tired and sad to celebrate.” Filled with the everyday thoughts of these fighters, the letters are by turns heartbreaking and amusing, revealing and frightening. While visiting a German concentration camp, one man wrote, “I don’t like Army life but I’m glad we are here to stop these atrocities.” Meanwhile, in another letter a soldier quips, “I know lice don’t crawl so I figured they were fleas.” A fitting tribute to all veterans, this book brings the experience of war—its dramatic horrors, its dreary hardships, its desperate hope for a better future—to vivid life. “An intimate portrait of the mundane and remarkable, of heroism and terror, of friendship and loss . . . Timely, compelling, and important reading.”—Matthew L. Basso, author of Men at Work
Book Synopsis Letters of Love and War by : Helen Dann Stringer
Download or read book Letters of Love and War written by Helen Dann Stringer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of correspondence between a WWII army surgeon and his wife, capturing experiences on the battlefront and on the homefront. While her husband relates the horrors of war and changes at the war's end in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, his wife describes family life with four small children. Includes bandw photos. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Letters from Home by : James K Thome
Download or read book Letters from Home written by James K Thome and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters From Home consists of a collection of original letters. The people who wrote the letters were Americans, most of them members of an extended family. They were written during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. The letters in this book contain the thoughts, concerns, hopes, dreams, worries, and anxieties of Americans during World War II, in their own words. There are many individual stories within the letters. Those stories describe not only events and places, but people who endured and triumphed during a very difficult and historic time.
Book Synopsis Army GI, Pacifist CO by : Frank Dietrich
Download or read book Army GI, Pacifist CO written by Frank Dietrich and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing selection of letters - the first published correspondence between GI and CO brothers - offers fresh perspectives on the American experience during World War II. These letters enrich our understanding of the war by documenting the different ways that Americans honored their conscience and served their country during an era of global conflict.
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Book Synopsis Letters from the 442nd by : Minoru Masuda
Download or read book Letters from the 442nd written by Minoru Masuda and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with the segregated Japanese American unit, the letters describe a soldier's daily life. Minoru Masuda was born and raised in Seattle. In 1939 he earned a master's degree in pharmacology and married Hana Koriyama. Two years later the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, and Min and Hana were imprisoned along with thousands of other Japanese Americans. When the Army recruited in the relocation camp, Masuda chose to serve in the 442nd. In April 1944 the unit was shipped overseas. They fought in Italy and in France, where they liberated Bruyeres and rescued a "lost battalion" that had been cut off by the Germans. After the German surrender on May 3, 1945, Masuda was among the last of the original volunteers to leave Europe; he arrived home on New Year's Eve 1945. Masuda's vivid and lively letters portray his surroundings, his daily activities, and the people he encountered. He describes Italian farmhouses, olive groves, and avenues of cypress trees; he writes of learning to play the ukulele with his "big, clumsy" fingers, and the nightly singing and bull sessions which continued throughout the war; he relates the plight of the Italians who scavenged the 442nd's garbage for food, and the mischief of French children who pelted the medics with snowballs. Excerpts from the 442nd daily medical log provide context for the letters, and Hana interposes brief recollections of her experiences. The letters are accompanied by snapshots, a drawing made in the field, and three maps drawn by Masuda.
Book Synopsis Somewhere in Europe by : Roberta Bernstein
Download or read book Somewhere in Europe written by Roberta Bernstein and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in Europe: The World War II Letters of Sam Lesner is a compilation of letters that he wrote from the ETO, where he was stationed, during World War II and which got saved but hidden away in a basement and never mentioned, until they were found by his daughters after his death. This book provides an eye-witness account about the War, about being a GI struggling to defeat the Nazis while missing home and family. He wrote about making friends with army buddies, treating wounded soldiers from the front in the 130th General Hospital in which he served as a medic, meeting Belgian and French holocaust survivors and learning their stories. The letters are supplemented with excerpts from an oral history of the same material he gave to a grandson in 1986. The book ends with an Epilogue about Sam's post-War career as a journalist with the Chicago Daily News and the Hyde Park Herald. This book contributes to a body of literature of previously hidden World War II letters. The soldiers came home and hid their daily correspondence to their families in basements and attics. Decades later the children and grandchildren of these veterans are finding the letters and bringing them to light, as we have done with our father's letters.
Book Synopsis Love Letters from World War II by : Russell Dalton
Download or read book Love Letters from World War II written by Russell Dalton and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you write to your young wife when you enlist in the Army to fight the Nazis during World War II? This book tells that story. Bob Dalton wrote a series of almost daily letters home during his service from 1944-1946. This is not a book of combat exploits, but a true life story of what it meant to have a wife and baby at home while serving your country in WWII--and the burden it placed on GIs and their families. The letters frankly discuss the challenges of life because they were only intended to be read by his wife. We found this trove of letters along with hundreds of original photos that illustrate the book after our mother passed away in 2018. We felt that we should share their story. Each letter begins and ends with his love for his family that he left behind to fight. He shares his experiences in boot camp in South Carolina, the trip to the front, crossing the Rhine with Patton's Third Army, and then battling to the Czech border by war's end. His mission changed to demilitarization and denazification until the Russians occupied Saxony as part of East Germany. Then he spent a year as part of the Allied occupation forces in Frankfurt dealing with postwar reconstruction and the U.S. Army bureaucracy. The war changed our father, and reading these letters changed our image of him and the other members of the Greatest Generation.
Book Synopsis Taps for a Jim Crow Army by : Phillip McGuire
Download or read book Taps for a Jim Crow Army written by Phillip McGuire and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II hoped that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a powerful collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials. The soldiers expressed their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army. Most black troops were denied entry into army specialist schools; black officers were not allowed to command white officers; black soldiers were served poorer food and were forced to ride Jim Crow military buses into town and to sit in Jim Crow base movie theaters. In the South, German POWs could use the same latrines as white American soldiers, but blacks could not. The original foreword by Benjamin Quarles, professor emeritus of history at Morgan State University, and a new foreword by Bernard C. Nalty, the chief historian in the Office of Air Force History, offer rich insights into the world of these soldiers.
Book Synopsis World War II by : Ernest E. Personeus
Download or read book World War II written by Ernest E. Personeus and published by Seaboard Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of WWII veterens like Ernest Personeous, sent home letters throughout their time in "the big one" and many more of "the greatest generation" went on to long productive careers in the militry or in civilian public service careers whose origins could be found in their World War II Service. Here is one such story, made compelling by the fact that it covers most of the period of the WWII on the ground, the post-war occupation and the fight to marry the girl he found and grew to love in Germany. After the war it chronicles 29 more years of Air Force Service and Army Civil Service careers during the Korean, Viet Nam, and Cold War eras. With vivid contemporary commentary to his loved ones and enhanced with contemporary photos "Letters to Mom" is a fascinating addition to our "America Remembers" series of historical and biographical chronicles of 2oth Century America.
Book Synopsis Letters to Ma and Bern by : James M. Brown
Download or read book Letters to Ma and Bern written by James M. Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: letters written by an airman chronicling his service in WW II
Book Synopsis Letters from the Home Front by : Barbara Bannister; Connie Duncan
Download or read book Letters from the Home Front written by Barbara Bannister; Connie Duncan and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of being apart, cousins Carolyn and Patty are eager to catch up with each other at a relative’s wedding. They bring the letters they exchanged during World War II—when they were children—as a way to reminisce. As the women read through the letters, they are transported back to the American home front. When they begin writing letters, Carolyn has just moved from Nebraska to Oregon, and the two girls desperately miss each other. But their communication is soon overshadowed by the events of December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor is bombed. The tone of the letters changes as the girls grow preoccupied with the war. Patty tells Carolyn about how their Japanese American friends move to Canada to avoid being put into camps, while Carolyn expresses her relief that her father cannot enlist in the navy due to a blind eye. Whether they write about gas rationing and blackout regulations or saving money to buy war stamps, Carolyn and Patty reveal the war’s impact on their lives. But as the two discuss the contents of the letters at their reunion, they realize just how much the war years shaped who they are as adults. Artfully switching between the past and the present, Letters from the Home Front is a charming novel of America during World War II.
Download or read book World War II written by Theresa Muller and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. Fred Muller was an ordinary man; however, he served his country in World War II in an honorable way. Reading his letters to his wife, whom he wrote every single day, gives a doorway into what life was like for many people back then. I learned of my fatheraEUR(tm)s experiences from my mother, as my dad didnaEUR(tm)t speak of it. I do know God used my dad in a powerful way to train pilots instrument panel flying. His war efforts were instrumental to the United States winning the war, and I am thankful and proud of him for that. God blessed me and him in healing our relationship before he passed on.
Book Synopsis World War Two Letters to My Girl Back Home by : Allan Robert Humbert
Download or read book World War Two Letters to My Girl Back Home written by Allan Robert Humbert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the underbelly of the US Air Force of some 40 years ago and its impact on the life and decision of a young alleged commander of troops looking for . . . well, you'll see. Mathematically, it is about 30% fiction and 70% reality. The persons therein are 80-90% real, sometimes surreal. Same for the military organization. Most names are changed, locations in Europe and the U.S. are not. Don't let the humor throw you. It is crucial to the context and allows the alleged commander to survive past the final page. Military machinations? There is that, orchestrated by the officer corps, as well as competence and incompetence of all corps. Love? You bet, and sex and minor violence, too. Terror? Well, of an institutional sort. Philosophy? Indeed, from West to East and including: the modern, the martial, the near marital, and that which is said to be mysterious and leads one elsewhere on the planet. And although this all took place a long time ago, it is undoubtedly still happening. Perhaps to you. Perhaps it already did. Questions are raised. A few are answered. Leaving some, like the author, still looking.
Book Synopsis Since You Went Away by : Judy Barrett Litoff
Download or read book Since You Went Away written by Judy Barrett Litoff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from a large archive of wartime correspondence, Since You Went Away collects hundreds of letters written by women of all backgrounds and ages from all over the United States: from Midwestern farms to the Hawaiian Islands, from young girls to anxious mothers. The letters are sometimes touching, sometimes anguished, and always packed with intimate glimpses of the World War II era.
Book Synopsis World War II Letters Home by : Audrey Fahlberg
Download or read book World War II Letters Home written by Audrey Fahlberg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, as letters arrived from my husband, a frontline combat medic in Italy with the Tenth Mountain Division, I was given assurance he was alive. I had to believe, though letters often arrived two months after they were written. That letter home was the only communication available in 1944 and 1945 from the Italian front, and all letters and cards were censored. Newspapers, radios, and newsreels at the movies told the world of the mountain peaks captured, rivers crossed, heroic details, lives lost. That letter home held our hearts together during the war. Letters were often written on the surface of his helmet, on a rock, or a board, and on any writing paper that was available. The letters home have been lovingly transcribed for easier reading because I wish to share them.
