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Dear Hubby of Mine: Home Front Wives of World War II by Diane Phelps Budden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dear Hubby of Mine: Home Front Wives of World War II about?
Touching letters written by a loving couple; musty letters that detail past lives—my parents' letters. A housewife and her sailor husband with shared immigrant experiences penned more than 500 letters during World War II, and the letters inform this book. Abridged versions of the letters weave a loving romantic story with actual events occurring on the home front and the battlefront. The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II will be celebrated in 2020. Most of the participants have passed on. While servicemen stories have been broadly told, the tales of the resolute war wives, who had a significant impact on the outcome of the war and the well-being of the country, have not been widely shared. While some women joined the military, and others entered the workforce for the first time, the majority stayed at home to raise children. Dear Hubby of Mine focuses on this latter group of women whose stories have been under-represented and largely uncelebrated in World War II literature. Women charted new roles during the war that led to new freedoms in the years ahead and eventually brought about major societal changes. A Midwest Book Reviewer noted that Budden's parents' experiences
Who reads Dear Hubby of Mine: Home Front Wives of World War II?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Diane Phelps Budden
- Publisher
- Red Rock Mountain Press LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780578557601
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Humanities
