Hoping to Hear from You Soon: Canadian War Letters, 1940-1945

Born in 1948, Sheila Cornett grew up in a time when almost everyone's father had served in the Second World War. Like many veterans of that conflict, her own father did not talk about his wartime experiences. Six decades later and after her mother's death, Sheila discovered her father's letters to his future wife, Marjory, written during the five and a half years he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery

In Hoping to Hear from You Soon: Canadian War Letters, 1940–1945, Don Cornett describe...