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Miss You

The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor

David C Smith author Charles E Taylor author Judy Barrett Litoff author Barbara Wooddall Taylor author David C Smith editor Judy Barrett Litoff editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Published:1st Oct '13

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During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived through the upheavals of the last century’s greatest conflict.

In Fairburn, Georgia, when I was growing up, everyone knew them simply as CharlieandBarbara, one word—for they seemed almost uncannily close, a single unit of harmony, two parts of a whole. Now everyone who reads this extraordinary document of love in a time of war will feel the power of that closeness. Miss You is the quintessential American chronicle, as substantial and rich and enduring as the Southern earth. Read and cherish it—there are none of us who wouldn’t have chosen for ourselves such a love as this.


A volume that offers extraordinary insight into the daily experiences of Americans at war.


Their great love—the connecting theme of this wonderful book—is something so rare it is both beautiful and ennobling.


It is the insight gained by reading these letters that make this book exceptional. . . . By the book’s close, the reader has gained an intimate and truthful understanding of wartime psyche and feels deeply how crucial these letters were to those they were comforting.

* Southern Histori

ISBN: 9780820346151

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 567g

408 pages