Genre: Historical Biography
Publisher: Crown Publishing, 2002
Pages: 352
Rating: Highly Recommend
Synopsis: Both poignant and inspiring, these are the moving stories of men and women who met amid the chaos of the most devastating war in history and became the loves of one another's lives. Many are now enjoying their seventies and eighties together after more than fifty happy years of marriage.
They met in many remarkable ways, some in the briefest of chance encounters, and their love endured heartrending ordeals of long separation and the constant threat that a husband or lover might not return. As these couples reflect on the profound experience of the war, the stories they most like to tell are of the deep bonds they forged during that tumultuous time, bonds so strong that they lasted a lifetime. As one man put it, "We've all got war stories. Some of us like to tell them and some don't. But the story of how we fell in love with our wives, well, that's still with us every day, and I know a lot of us can still get a little choked up over it. The war was a long time ago, one part of our lives. But we're still living the love stories."
Bestselling author and master interviewer Larry King tells the stories of these love affairs just as the couples recalled them, capturing the special feeling of those times in their own words. The stories are complemented with a wealth of personal photographs and reproductions of touching memorabilia, including V-mail letters, cartoons, cards, newspaper accounts, and even the ticket stub from the movie seen on a first date.
A treasure trove of reminiscences, Love Stories of World War II offers an unprecedented view into this personal side of the World War II experience and celebrates the legacy of remarkable relationships forged in the midst of tragedy.
Review: Ordinary people's love stories are immortalized in Larry King's book. I loved that pictures from then and now are included in each re-telling. Fantastic read.
