Love Letters From World War Ii
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Love Letters From World War Ii PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Love Letters From World War Ii book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Love Letters From World War Ii
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Russell Dalton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Love Letters From World War Ii written by Russell Dalton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
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.
Sunshine In An Otherwise Gloomy World
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Linda Perkins
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-05-27
Sunshine In An Otherwise Gloomy World written by Linda Perkins and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Believing that the best stories are true stories and that they are best told by an actual participant, the author has compiled a World War II love story, based on letters written by her father to her mother during the nineteen months he was in the Army from 1943-1945. They represent the story of many soldiers who, away from home and those they loved, found that such letters provided stability in an otherwise tense, uncertain, and often uncaring world. Honestly presented, with brief historical and narrative commentaries, the book attests to the strength of a marriage that is based on an ultimate faith in each other and in God.
Letters Of Love And War
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Helen Dann Stringer
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Letters Of Love And War written by Helen Dann Stringer and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
Love And War
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Oneta McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Love And War written by Oneta McCarthy and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This is a love story, but is is also a story of World War II, told by using 268 actual love letters.
Letters From The Greatest Generation
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Howard H. Peckham
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-03
Letters From The Greatest Generation written by Howard H. Peckham and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with History categories.
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
World War Ii Love Letters
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jack Gettings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
World War Ii Love Letters written by Jack Gettings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Soldiers categories.
Love Bill
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jan Krulick-Belin
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Love Bill written by Jan Krulick-Belin and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with History categories.
"There's a bit of everyone's family in this moving and heartwarming journey. I know that Janet has been hungering to write this story her whole life, and I'm happy to report: she done good!" -Paul Reiser, Actor, Author, and Comedian "Seemingly ordinary, yet eloquent love letters sent to a GI's future wife during wartime, proved to be a never-imagined godsend for their yet-to-be-born daughter. Not only did they lead Jan on a quest to bond with the father she lost at a young age, but they offer us a deeper insight into every soldier's struggle amidst the chaos of war to hold on to his dream of returning to the life and loves he left behind. It's a story that captured my heart... a marvelous work." -Captain Louis Matjasko, USN Retired; Executive Director, Circle of Change Veterans Dog Program "Identity and memory are the universal themes that bind human experience and fuel the quest to understand the past from a very personal perspective. Being able to touch actual artifacts that are precious family heirlooms, gives meaning to our very existence as daughters and sons, as witnesses to history, and as human beings. They give us unexpected road maps that reveal not just the greater geographical world around us, but the hidden chambers within our own hearts. A box of letters inspired Krulick-Belin to bravely embark upon this journey of longing. Using her keen curatorial eye and art historian's sleuthing abilities, she discovered the father she barely knew, and in turn, her own place in the world. We are privileged to travel alongside her on this odyssey she so generously shares." -Marissa Roth, Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist, Documentary Photographer (One Person Crying: Women and War), and Writer. "Krulick-Belin does an impressive job of placing her father's experiences in North Africa, a theatre of WWII that is little known or understood, in historical perspective. In addition, she helps shine a spotlight on her father's Jewish identity as a U.S. soldier serving in North Africa and the Mediterranean, his contacts with the local Jewish populations, and his desire to enlist in the struggle against Nazi Germany despite his age. An interesting work about a daughter's discovery of both her father as well as her own heritage." -Lawrence Bell, Executive Director, Arizona Jewish Historical Society "Jan researched the history, culture, and religions of North Africa, while looking through a very personal lens to rediscover her father. She tells a compelling story particularly for those interested in the North African campaign of World War II, and those interested in the Moroccan Jewish community." -Robert J. Silverman, U.S. Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations, American Jewish Committee; Former Senior Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
Dearest Ruthy
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Joseph Portnoy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-11
Dearest Ruthy written by Joseph Portnoy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When the ear-numbing thunder of artillery is suddenly silenced; the acrid smell of gunpowder blown away; the threat of death lessened; the wounded treated; and the dead removed; the weary soldier finds a safe shelter, lights a cigarette, and wants to talk. He does so by writing a letter to the one he loves most, sharing his fears and loneliness. But mostly, he tells of his love. Dearest Ruthy is a moving collection of love letters from author Joseph Portnoy to his wife, Ruth, during World War II. From his Atlantic crossing aboard the HMS Aquitania, to his months in England preparing for the invasion of France, to his eleven months of combat in Europe, Portnoy and Ruth faithfully wrote letters full of love, hope, and dreams. Other than a diary or a journal, the letter sent to a loved one from the battlefield revealed the most intimate thoughts and sentiments of the young soldier, the hidden truths of war which often escaped the censor's pen. Dearest Ruthy beautifully captures those emotions of a generation that Tom Brokaw appropriately called "The Greatest."
From India With Love
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Nita E Harris
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-04-25
From India With Love written by Nita E Harris and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-25 with categories.
One of my most prized possessions is the letters my parents wrote to each other while my Dad was in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Although most of the letters were written during WWII, some of them were written as early as 1937. Book one, Just Yours, included letters written from September 1937 - December 1942. From India with Love is the second book in the trilogy of My Parents' Love Letters During World War II. It is January 1943 and Glenn has just arrived in India. He has not seen his fiancé, Nita, since he entered the service in March 1942. This book is composed of the love letters that he wrote from January 1943 - March 1944. Unfortunately, he had to destroy the letters that Nita wrote to him before traveling to and from overseas, except for the few that he managed to ship home. Although most of this book consists of the love letters my Dad wrote to my Mother, there are a few other letters written from friends and family. I am also in possession of the diary of my paternal grandfather, Boston Harris. His brief entries provide a unique perspective of life back home, his working life on a farm, and the difficulty of running the farm with his three sons serving their country during World War II. Reading these letters is like being transported in a time machine to witness the 1940's through the eyes of a soldier from South Carolina and the girl back home who loves and misses him. In addition to these descriptive letters, there are pictures, greeting cards, and many references to movies and popular songs of the time.
Love Letters Of The Great War
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Mandy Kirkby
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-16
Love Letters Of The Great War written by Mandy Kirkby and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with Literary Collections categories.
From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written. Many of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others contain wrenching accounts of fear, jealousy and betrayal; and a number share sweet dreams of home. But in all the correspondence – whether from British, American, French, German, Russian, Australian and Canadian troops in the height of battle, or from the heartbroken wives and sweethearts left behind – there lies a truly human portrait of love and war. A century on from the First World War, these letters offer an intimate glimpse into the hearts of men and women separated by conflict, and show how love can transcend even the bleakest and most devastating of realities. Edited and introduced by Mandy Kirkby, with a foreword from Orange Prize-winner Helen Dunmore.