WW2 Historian Reviews ‘War Bonds’

Historical fiction writer and World War II historian Melissa Marsh posted this review of War Bonds: Love Stories From the Greatest Generation on her blog, The Best of World ll. “Wartime brings out some of our strongest emotions, but arguably one of the most powerful is love. With the very real possibility of death hovering over them, men and women of the 1940s often rushed to get married before the soldier shipped off to war, or made a commitment to marry once the war was over. They often wrote ardent letters to each other full of dreams of the future. Those letters became the glue that kept them together when the fighting, the waiting, and the separation became too much. War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation by Cindy Hval brings many of those stories to life. A journalist, Hval gathered 36 stories from men and women across America and compiled them into this wonderful volume/War Bonds. More here.