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(More customer reviews)It reads easily, save for a few editorial glitches, where the same information is repeated. Ms. Thomas writes of the years 1938-1962 from a highly personal viewpoint. Her narrative shares her early dating experiences prior to WW II with diverse young military officers, and the various places she went with them. Except for the "Day of Infamy", the war years breeze right by, marked with her marriage to an engineer in 1945. From there, they go to sugar plantation life on Maui. There family life is recounted in great detail, e.g. gardens, guest lists, visitors, her children's activities, etc. Sparse historic background is ever included in her narrative, save for bits and pieces here/there--the strongest being on the basic methods of sugar cane farming. This is, instead, a high-resolution look at her everyday life. Since I was interested in regionwide dynamics during those years, I found this book unsuitable because of the tiny canvas Ms. Thomas painted upon. Others might view it differently.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brought to a sudden end my happy, carefree, post college years in Honolulu. I found myself on duty that morning in the laboratory of The Queen's Hospital with only a Japanese aide for a helper. This book tells the story of the major changes that took place during the twenty-four years I spent in the Islands. My marriage to a naval officer engineer took us after the war to the Island of Maui, where we lived first in a rain forest and then on a sugar plantation.
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