Letters from the Greatest Generation: Writing Home in WWII

A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II.

Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas.

Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each page, and their voices ring loud and clear. "It's all part of the game but it's bloody and rough," writes one soldier to his wife. "Wearing ...