A historical fiction novel told from the perspective of a son fighting on the battlefields of Europe during World War II and his mother, struggling with worry and uncertainty about her soldier son while she tries to keep a semblenance of a normal, happy Christmas holiday back on the home front. Nor
War, Spies, and Bobby Sox: Stories About World War II at Home
β Scribed by Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Book ID
- 110922445
- Publisher
- Fischer Hellmann Communications
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 748 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781938733987
- ASIN
- B01MR32G79
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β¦ Synopsis
As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp...Another German, a war refugee, is forced to risk her life spying on the developing Manhattan Project in Chicago...And espionage surrounds the disappearance of an actress from the thriving Jewish community of Chicago's Lawndale. In this trio of tales, acclaimed thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann beautifully depicts the tumultuous effect of war on the home front and illustrates how the action, terror, and tragedy of World War II was not confined to the front lines. War, Spies, and Bobby Sox: Stories About World War II at Home is award-winning author Libby Fischer Hellmann's fourteenth work and fourth volume of historical fiction.
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