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Letters from the Attic: Save the Last Dance for Me
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i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig |
Veröffentlichung: |
September 2013
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Genre: |
Geschichte / Politik / Kultur |
ISBN: |
9781475976021 |
EAN-Code:
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9781475976021 |
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iUniverse |
Einband: |
Gebunden |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 235 mm / B 157 mm / D 41 mm |
Gewicht: |
1164 gr |
Seiten: |
622 |
Zus. Info: |
HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag |
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"FASCINATING ... MANY WILL APPRECIATE THE NOSTALGIA AND PERSONAL LOOK INTO THE GREATEST ERA OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY."
-Dr. Bruce Shields, Professor Emeritus, Yale
This personal history recalls family, love, and young romance beneath the roar of a raging war, building on letters stored away during World War II.
A widower now remarried, Charles Young retires from a long teaching career in Greece and returns home to Connecticut with his wife, Mary. After they move into his old family homestead, they discover a box of letters in the attic. One letter at a time an early life is revealed.
Charles was just finishing junior high school when World War II broke out. He was a boy then and deeply in love with a girl named Launa, with whom he'd meet at night in the park every full moon-until they were discovered and Launa was sent away. There was nothing to keep them together but their letters.
In 1943 Charles was accepted into a naval program at Harvard University. Away from his family for the first time, he kept in contact once again through letters, which included a detailed account of his service with the marines during the battle of Okinawa and the final surrender by the Japanese in Tokyo Bay in 1945.
Sharing a cache of letters from the early forties, Charles recalls family, friendship, and love throughout his life. |
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