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As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story
As Always Jack A Wartime Love Story
Author: Emma Sweeney
At the tail end of WWII, a young navy pilot named Jack Sweeney fell crazy in love with a California girl named Beebe -just before he was shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. From stations around the Pacific, he wooed her with letters full of teasing charm, hokey jokes, and sincere affection. When Jack returned to the States and asked he...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316758581
ISBN-10: 0316758582
Publication Date: 4/10/2002
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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This engaging compilation of love letters written in the early months of 1946 by a young navy pilot named Jack Sweeney can only be described as a sweet love story that captures the personality of an intelligent and fun-loving man. Emma Sweeney, an author and literary agent, has compiled these letters as an homage to the father she never knew (Jack was killed on duty in an airplane crash in 1956, leaving four sons and his unborn daughter). The preface and afterword are a heartfelt explanation of both her need to know her father and the results of her research. Unfortunately, the book does not hold as much in the way of historical value as such works as Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front and Miss You: The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor. Additionally, Emma's mother's letters do not survive to give us a fuller picture of this courtship. However, the memoir is charming and would be a welcome addition to larger public libraries or libraries with a large collection of wartime correspondence.
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  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Sweet story of a daughter who got to know her father through letters he wrote to her mother while in active service duty, before his death. Quick read I enjoyed very much.
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A daughter's search for information about her father, whose plane was lost at sea on a secret mission during the last days of WWII. Will a packet of letters found in the back of her mothers' dresser help her get to know and understand what her mother and father experienced in those turbulent times. Beautiful !
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A book of WWII love letters written by a US serviceman to his then girlfriend. The letters, tied in faded pink ribbon, were found in a drawer by his daughter after her mother's death. By reading these letters the daughter came to know and love the father who died before she was born.

As a child of WWII parents I enjoyed the book. Wish I had MY mom's letters!


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