LETTERS from the GOOD
WAR,A Young Man's Discovery of the World by Hugh Aaron - Almost 1,000 WWII letters written home by a young Seabee, taking the reader from the first day at boot camp to the day he returns from the Southwest Pacific. Together they are a character study of a young man coming of age. Written on the scene, they are also a window on the times. Readers and reviewers describe this book as "palpably real," "a remarkable history," "a commitment," "a portrait of a complex and amazing young man." Includes sixteen pages of photographs and fifty-nine pages of notes on events and personalities of the era. Read more about this book 
Gringo,THE MAKING OF A REBEL by Emil Willimetz - A well written memoir of an unconventional life, this book offers both general readers and scholars a journey behind the lines of the Great Depression, combat in Normandy and northern Germany, and early civil rights and labor organizing in the South. Readers and reviewers say: "You will be fully immersed in his richly detailed stories", "I know I will read Gringo again, rediscovering paragraph by paragraph the story of this modest, delightfully stubborn, uncannily familiar - rebel." "Willimetz autobiography is rather a rough diamond." "a sensitive and candid autobiography," "Willimetz's personality shines on every page." Read more about this book |