Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Migration and a New Start in the 1920s
2. Coping with Hard Times in the 1930s
3. The Slow Pull Upward, Late 1930s
4. Into the Storm, 1939–1941
5. Duty Calls Every Citizen, 1942
6. Bearer of Bad News, 1942
7. Urgent Preparation, 1943
8. Together, and Alone, 1943
9. Despair and Bitter Hope, 1944
10. Invasion, 1944
11. Will It Never End? 1945
12. We'll Meet Again, 1945
Epilogue
Sources
Index

Promotional Information

A Midwestern town copes with the experience of World War II

About the Author

Bruce C. Smith is a native of New Castle, Indiana. He lives in Daggett, Michigan.

Reviews

"A superb story. Smith has a wonderful eye for detail and a compelling perspective and voice. We care about this place and the people who live here." James H. Madison, author of Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II