A Sparrow Falls Author:Marion Smith Collins During World War II, an elegant Seattle hotel became the residence for Navy families whose men were fighting in the Pacific. Four different women with four different pasts decided to call the Elysium home and settled in to survive the extraordinary times. They would run the hotel and volunteer in the military hospital, devote themselves to the R... more »ed Cross and replace at the aircraft factory the men who had gone to war. And from the first attack on Pearl Harbor to the dramatic fighting on the USS Shiloh, those same women did everything they could -- praying, hoping, working until they dropped -- to bring victory, and their men, home...« less