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So Long, Bob: A Pennsylvania Farm Boy's Letters Home from the War 1941-1945

So Long, Bob: A Pennsylvania Farm Boy's Letters Home from the War 1941-1945

Berkey, Brian D.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMilitary BiographiesWorld War II

Publisher Price: $25.95

ISBN10: 164468313X
ISBN13: 9781644683132
Publisher: Covenant Books
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In November 1941, the war that had been raging in Europe since 1939 and in China since 1937 was coming closer and closer to the United States. The US had instituted the draft in 1940 and on November 4, 1941, more than a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war came home to the family of Annie and Harvey Berkey on their farm near Elton, PA. That was the day when their middle son, Bob, received his draft notice. This book presents something of their experience of the war through a compilation of the letters that his family received from Bob as well as entries from Annie's diaries and the headlines and articles from their local newspaper, the Johnstown Tribune. It is a story of how an ordinary farm family from the hills of western Pennsylvania coped with the extraordinary circumstances of being caught up in a global conflict.

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