Judy Barrett Litoff
Autore di Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front
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- female
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- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Georgia, USA
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Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from… di Judy Barnett Litoff
This is a really nice overview of women's lives on the WWII homefront, and includes some diversity of letter-writers. It's not quite as devastating as [b:Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam|379365|Dear America Letters Home from Vietnam|Bernard Edelman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388291219s/379365.jpg|1542519], but then, what could be? For non-combat letters, these do a great job of communicating the stress of wartime.
Since You Went Away is an intimate look at female personal correspondence written during the war years. I ordered this for research and found the content enlightening. It is a little dry at times and once the invasive effect of reading personal letters faded, I found it much more enlightening.
Finished on Jun 1, 2013
293 pg
★ ★ ★ ★
Since You Went Away provides intimate glimpses of the American homefront during World War II.
It contains letters to soldiers from women of all backgrounds and ages, and from all over the United State.
There is a pre and post war sketch of each woman and the man to whom she wrote.
The book is divided topically rather than chronologically.
Chapter headings will give an idea of the direction of the book is heading.
Don't you know there's a war on? --
Courtship by mail --
War brides --
War wives --
Be with him at every mail call : a pictorial essay --
I took a war job --
For the duration --
The price of victory --
Why we fought --
Chronology of World War II events --
For further reading
index.… (altro)
293 pg
★ ★ ★ ★
Since You Went Away provides intimate glimpses of the American homefront during World War II.
It contains letters to soldiers from women of all backgrounds and ages, and from all over the United State.
There is a pre and post war sketch of each woman and the man to whom she wrote.
The book is divided topically rather than chronologically.
Chapter headings will give an idea of the direction of the book is heading.
Don't you know there's a war on? --
Courtship by mail --
War brides --
War wives --
Be with him at every mail call : a pictorial essay --
I took a war job --
For the duration --
The price of victory --
Why we fought --
Chronology of World War II events --
For further reading
index.… (altro)
Two very typical members of the WWII generation who met, married, were separated while the husband was overseas and carried on an almost daily correspondence. Theirs was a very close relationship which was maintained not only through the war but up to the time of the book being published in 1990 (and no doubt beyond). Gives good WWII insights on the homefront and overseas.
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