Bittersweet

This is a courageously honest story of love, of hate, of joy, of hardship, of success, of loss. Ultimately, it is the story of two people who survive — together and apart — 57 years of marriage. In the final analysis, this narrative reveals the triumph of love over all adversity, expressed in the last letter from a loving wife left, once more, to face her life alone. The first part of this memoir is based on nearly 800 letters written between the author and her husband of two months following his deployment to the European warfront and his subsequent 15-month tour-of-duty.The second part delineates in sweet detail the all-too-common experiences of returning servicemen and their wives as they faced life together in the hard world of post-war survival and the less-than-perfect lives they had so long imagined.