title: The Heart of a Soldier: A True Love Story of Love, War, and Sacrifice
author:  Kate Blaise 
description: Blaise, a support operations transportation officer for the 101st Airborne Division, and her husband, Mike, a helicopter pilot, were both sent to the front lines of Iraq in March 2003. Blaise tells the poignant tale of the young Missouri couple whose dual army career ended shatteringly in January 2004, when Mike's plane crashed in a windstorm and he died. She retraces her and Mike's early romance as high school sweethearts and her ROTC training, while Mike endured Ranger School, then flight school; they were first stationed in Korea, though separately. Alternating with professional accomplishments are personal tragedies, such as the car accident that left Blaise's mother brain damaged, and the discovery that Blaise is afflicted with premature ovarian failure, effectively prohibiting her from having children. The couple's seven-year marriage was continually strained by their long absences from each other, though they managed to share quarters erratically at Q-West in Iraq as the Americans moved aggressively to take Saddam Hussein and his minions. Blaise offers elucidating close-up details of army life, especially for the rare woman officer (she was promoted to captain but has since left the military); despite her own professionalism, she acknowledges that "men saw me as a woman first, and nothing could change that." <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  AS WAR BLAZES ACROSS EUROPE, THREE COUPLES FIND A LOVE THAT IS POWERFUL ENOUGH
  TO OVERCOME ALL THE ODDS…
  
  A KISS GOODBYE 1914
  
  As war looms, genteel Flora yearns to be more than just an observer. She finds
  a revolutionary kindred spirit in soldier Geraint—but will their fragile love
  be crushed before it can start to bloom?
  
  DEAREST SYLVIE 1916
  
  Soldier Robbie cannot forget his one hedonistic night in Paris with beautiful
  waitress Sylvie. But as Europe burns, can these two star-crossed lovers ever
  be reunited?
  
  FOREVER WITH ME 1918
  
  Nurse Sheila is horrified to discover her new boss is the French surgeon she
  woke beside after Armistice Day! Fighting for their love will be the bravest
  thing she’s ever had to do….
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “If we are not enemies, but we are not on the same side, then where on earth
  are we?”
  
  “I’ll tell you where we are, we’re in no-man’s-land.”
  
  “No-man’s-land,” Flora repeated. “Our own private land.”
  
  “For the time being.”
  
  No-man’s-land. A place where o