A Chance for Love: The World War II Letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, Usmcr | 
| Author: Eugene T. Petersen
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2552036
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 461
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0870134906
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.530922
EAN: 9780870134906
ASIN: 0870134906
Publication Date: January 1999
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Condition: Moderate wear to DJ, a few very small spots on outer edge. Inside is VG, no writing or dogears. Nice useable copy overall. FREE DELIVERY CONFIRMATION
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Book Description
In mid-February 1944 Marian Elizabeth Smith, a young Wisconsin woman, met Marine Corps Lieutenant Eugene T. Petersen on the passenger train, El Capitan, as it made its 42-hour run from Los Angeles to Chicago. After a brief acquaintance, he left the United States to join the Third Marine Division on Guam and eventually to take part in the battle for Iwo Jima in February and March of 1945. The collected letters of their subsequent 18-month correspondence reveal much about wartime life at home and abroad. This correspondence represents a time capsule of current events as Smith and Petersen discuss Franklin Roosevelt, the United Nations, internationalism, popular movies, the French aviator and poet Antoine de St. Exupery, the comic strip Barnaby, and the frustrations of dealing with sometimes less-than-enlightened parents. The loss of Marian's brother during the bombing of Ploesti, Rumania, in June 1944, brought Petersen and Smith closer together, and after hundreds of letters the "chance for love" Marian had suggested early in their correspondence evolved into a marriage that has endured for more than half a century.
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