Publisher's Synopsis
"Bob and Luella McBride had been married two months when twenty-year-old Bob was thrust into a global war. Luella Hart, nineteen when she married, relied on her sisters and Bob's parents for support as a wartime single mother. The McBrides' story is told through excerpts from more than 200 letters filled with wonder, anxiety, yearning, and a strong sense of family, spanning roughly from Christmas Eve 1943 to Christmas Eve 1945. The narrative is supplemented by Bob's memoir, telling the stories of war he could not write about in his letters. Bob later became a popular professor at Indiana Central College (present-day University of Indianapolis)"--.
