Product Description: A Sentimental Journey is a social history of the life and culture of the World War II home front in Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina. "The Defense Capital of the State," it became a mighty contributor to the war effort and the country's unique wartime boomtown, earning it the right to be proclaimed as "America's World War II City...read more

Product Description: The Journey Continues extends the human interest story started in the acclaimed A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown, including more cultural anecdotes, love stories, and the social scene, and numerous detailed accounts of area men in combat and those killed in action...read more

Product Description: 200pp - Illustrated - Maps - Biblio - Index

Product Description: Hermann Pfrengle’s World War II memoir describes in remarkable and breathtaking detail the unorthodox life and travails of an adolescent German boy on the war-scarred home front. As a member of the Jungvolk, a group loosely associated under the Hitler Youth organization, he helped construct the Siegfried Line, dodged bombs and cleared rubble with civilian defense, and worked in the war effort...read more

Product Description: The persona and character of the World War II Marine vividly come alive in Gyrene. The book interprets and analyzes the Marine's personal and cultural history, the pleasant and unpleasant, serious and not so, and the ordinary and exceptional...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Giants in the Cornfield adds a fresh dimension to Civil War literature with this extensive social study of the young, uneducated farmers of the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The work focuses on the interactions of a single, homogeneous unit of common soldiers: neighbors and chums from the same county, village, and family, who endure three years of hardships to save the Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)