Judy Barrett Litoff

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1) Bryant College goes to war

Author

Litoff, Judy Barrett

Publisher

Bryant University

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

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The Bryant College Service Club was formed in March 1942 by Bryant students for Bryant alumni serving their country during World War II. Its purpose was to send monthly packages of cigarettes, candy, cookies, letters, and knitted articles to Bryant men and women serving in the U.S. military. The club also sold war stamps and bonds and conducted first aid classes. When the club was formed there were about 80 Bryant men and women deployed throughout...

2) American midwives, 1860 to the present

Author

Litoff, Judy Barrett

Series

Contributions in medical history ; 1

Publisher

Greenwood Press

Pub. Date

1978.

Language

English

3) An American heroine in the French Resistance: the diary and memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake

Author

d'Albert-Lake, Virginia

Series

World War II the global human and ethical dimension ; 9

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

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This account by a woman who fought the Nazis alongside her husband is "an indelible portrait of extraordinary strength of character" (The New Yorker). Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen and later survived a Nazi prison camp. After the war, she stayed in France...

4) Since you went away: World War II letters from American women on the home front

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1991.

Language

English

5) American women in a world at war: contemporary accounts from World War II

Series

Worlds of women ; 1

Publisher

Scholarly Resources

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

6) Miss you: the World War II letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor

Author

Taylor, Barbara Wooddall

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Pub. Date

[1990]

Language

English

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Experience World War II from the perspective of a married couple in this collection of letters exchanged between an American serviceman and his wife. During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings,...