When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters, 1941-45

Robert E. Quirk and his future wife, Marianne, were both Wayne State University students when they met and fell in love in 1941, but they were quickly parted when Quirk was drafted. Decades after their marriage and the end of the war, Quirk shares the letters they exchanged during World War II.

The letters in When You Come Home paint a vivid picture of the couple’...