Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)For me, America's Home Front Heroes by Stacy Enyeart, was a very emotional book. As I read about all the ordinary people back home, I thought of my own mother and father. My mother was a young French-speaking woman with two young children, my older brother, age 3 and myself, a baby, living alone in Texas, when my father went through wartime pilot's training. I remember her talking of how she used to faint from lack of food and how her landlady would take pity on her, giving her something to eat as my father's paycheck didn't quite reach the end of the month. When my father went overseas, my mother returned home to Minnesota where my grandparents and many other relatives lived. Nonetheless, throughout the war and for years and years after, my mother and her landlady would exchange Christmas letters. One of my strongest memories is of my mother, always sitting down to take a moment to read her landlady's letter, then with tears in her eyes recounting the different stories of her landlady's kindness. Such moments of everyday recollections are what make up Stacy Enyeart's poignant book, whether of college sophomores who pool their gas ration stamps to visit their families or of a young woman, trained to repair engines to help out the war effort, only to face the consternation of a local preacher over the issue of women wearing pants outside of work hours. This book brings the war into a very personal and emotional perspective for those of us who grew up in ordinary families. I strongly recommend this book.
Click Here to see more reviews about: America's Home Front Heroes: An Oral History of World War II (Praeger Security International)
0 comments:
Post a Comment