title: Letters of Love and War: A World War II Correspondence
author: Helen Stringer
description: Letters of Love and War, a correspondence between an army surgeon and his wife, capture both the battlefront as well as the day-to-day experiences of a central New York family waiting for a husband and father to return home. Dr. Sydney Stringer's letters from North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany offer glimpses of the horrors of war as he saw them. They are invaluable documents describing World War II from the perspective of a surgeon in an evacuation hospital as it moves behind the battle lines. Stringer describes the changing scenes of postwar France and Germany, interprets the ordinary soldier's reaction to seeing prisoner-of-war stockades and concentration camps, and how troops responded to Churchill's announcement that the war had ended. The letters of Helen Dann Stringer reveal a personal, yet universal saga of the war from the homefront. Warm and lively, her letters of encouragement reveal changing scenes as she describes life with family, friends, and their four young children in what seemed to her an unending homefront war without men.
zlib_text: Praise for
  
  _Letters Across the Sea_
  
  “Readers weary of European-centric World War II dramas will delight in
  Genevieve Graham’s _Letters Across the Sea_ , which centers on the courage and
  tenacity of Canadian soldiers, veterans, and home-front fighters…. A tender,
  moving tale illuminating a fascinating lesser-known chapter of World War II
  history!”
  
  >  **Kate Quinn,** _ **New York Times**_ **bestselling author of** _ **The
  > Huntress**_ **and** _ **The Alice Network**_
  
  “I always look forward to diving into a Genevieve Graham novel, because I know
  I’ll be swept away by her meticulous evocation of the past, her memorable and
  wonderfully observed characters, and her unmatchable flair for shining a light
  into the neglected corners of our shared past. In _Letters Across the Sea_ ,
  she sends us from 1930s Toronto, then under siege by a relentless plague of
  anti-Semitism, to a different battleground altogether: the last stand of
  Canadian troops at the Battle of Hong Kong. This is history wor