Weinsteins' war : letters of love, struggle and survival

Resource Information

The work Weinsteins' war : letters of love, struggle and survival represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Weinsteins' war : letters of love, struggle and survival

Title remainder

letters of love, struggle and survival

Creator

• Weinstein, Dave

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Jewish soldiers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
• Weinstein, Dave -- Correspondence
• Weinstein, Sylvia -- Correspondence
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North
• Army spouses -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe, Western

Genre

• Correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

This is the story of one young Jewish family, Dave and Sylvia and daughter, Ruth as told through the 700 letters they exchanged - between Dave at war and Sylvia in England. The letters, always vivid, sometimes funny, often passionate and moving, begin in 1942, when Dave first goes abroad on active service, and continue until he is discharged home in 1945. Their letters provide a unique picture of life on two Fronts, at war in the 8th Army fighting in North Africa and Europe, ending in the Army of Occupation in Germany, and at home surviving the Blitz, rationing, family rivalries and the struggles entailed in bringing up a young daughter. It is a very honest and intimate portrayal of the strains of sustaining a very new marriage and a loving relationship when they were so far apart and the hopes they both had for a new, post-war Britain

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

940.540941

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult