The DeLuca Furlough Brides: Book 1: The Ones They Left Behind (The DeLuca War Brides)

Alan Simon

ISBN 10: 0999466518 / ISBN 13: 9780999466513

Edité par Alan Simon, 2017

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Synopsis :

Seventy-five years ago, in the earliest days of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young American women hastily married their sweethearts before those young men went off to war. This is the story of two of those young women who became known as furlough brides.

Much to the dismay of her haughty mother, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Buchanan marries her high school sweetheart, Carlo DeLuca, during Carlo’s brief furlough following Marine Corps boot camp before he departs for infantry training…and then the bloody islands of the Pacific Theater.

One week later, Elizabeth’s high school acquaintance Angela Antolini marries Carlo’s older brother Tony while Tony is home on furlough following his U.S. Army basic training. As with Carlo – and their other two brothers – Tony will soon be off to war.

Elizabeth and Angela – the DeLuca furlough brides – form a bond that carries them through the World War II homefront years. Both young women find jobs as government agency secretaries to help them cope with one lonely day after another. Katherine Buchanan, Elizabeth’s meddling mother, refuses to accept her daughter’s marriage to someone that Katherine considers to be beneath her daughter. Elizabeth’s black market-dealing brother and father present her with even more problems, even as she worries day after day about Carlo’s well-being.

Come spend the war years with Elizabeth and Angela as they each struggle with the same monumental question:How can a wartime marriage survive years apart from each other, amidst constant fear and many other trials?

À propos de l?auteur: Alan Simon is the USA TODAY bestselling author of several historical novels set in the mid-20th century: The First Christmas of the War, Thanksgiving, 1942, and Unfinished Business. He is also the author of the USA TODAY bestseller Gettysburg, 1913: The Complete Novel of the Great Reunion about the 1913 "Great Reunion" that was held exactly 50 years after the Battle of Gettysburg and was attended by more than 50,000 aging Civil War veterans. Alan is also the author of the memoir Clemente: Memories of a Once-Young Fan - Four Birthdays, Three World Series, Two Holiday Steelers Games, and One Bar Mitzvah, published in honor and memory of the 40th anniversary of baseball Hall-of-Famer Roberto Clemente's tragic loss on a humanitarian mission. He is a native of Pittsburgh (where several of his novels are set) and currently lives in Phoenix.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The DeLuca Furlough Brides: Book 1: The Ones...
Éditeur : Alan Simon
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket