Author: Dean W. Andersen
He was a chemistry student in college on his way home for a visit when news of Pearl Harbor came over the car radio. Like 16 million others from his generation, Dean W. Andersen was called to active military duty and spent the next 38 months of his life as a medic in the Pacific war theater. This memoir shows that the human feelings of fear, loss, anger, hate, patriotism and solidarity were the same then as they have been for every war since. The experiences of the "greatest generation" can comfort and advise
young people today who may well be faced with
challenges as great as those met so long ago. Based on 93 letters written home to his wife and parents during his time away at war, this…
I am interested in the history of WWII, not from the perspective of
generals and politicians, but from the regular "Joes and Janes" who were called into the service of our country. In this book, the…
