Research Catalog

Title

We are going to be lucky : a World War II love story in letters / edited and annotated by Elizabeth L. Fox.

Author

Miller, Leo, 1915-1990

Publication

• Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Diana F.
• Fox, Elizabeth L., 1944-

Description

xviii, 472 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Series Statement

Excelsior editions

Uniform Title

Excelsior editions.

Subjects

• Married people
• Soldiers
• Miller, Leo, 1915-1990
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
• Personal narratives > American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front
• Military campaigns
• Miller, Diana F > Correspondence
• Married people > United States > Correspondence
• Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
• 1939-1945
• World War (1939-1945)
• Soldiers > United States > Correspondence
• Miller, Leo, 1915-1990 > Correspondence
• United States
• Love-letters > United States
• Records and correspondence

Genre/Form

• Personal narratives – American.
• Records and correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Training: Induction: Camp Upton, Long Island, New York, May 7-20, 1973 ; Basic training: the first six months: Camp Shelby, Mississippi, May 21-November 20, 1943 ; Basic training: the second six months: Camp Shelby, Mississippi, November 21, 1973-June 4, 1944 -- Part II. Overseas: To the front: on the USS Wakefile, June 5-13, 1944: Camp Barton Stacey, England, June 13-July 7, 1944 ; Somewhere in France, somewhere in Belgium: Betty Lou and the breakout from Normandy, July 9-September 11, 1944 ; Somewhere in Holland, somewhere in Germany: mid-September through mid-December 1944 ; The Battle of the Bulge: Ardennes, Belgium, mid-December 1944 through January, 1945 -- Part III. Recovery: The long road home, January 25-May 1, 1945 ; The final phase: recovery: May 2, 1945-June 15, 1946 ; Epilogue: life after the war, 1946-1994.

Call Number

JFE 18-7539

ISBN

• 9781438470573
• 1438470576
• 9781438470580
• 1438470584

LCCN

2017040336

OCLC

1002692997

Author

Miller, Leo, 1915-1990, author.

Title

We are going to be lucky : a World War II love story in letters / edited and annotated by Elizabeth L. Fox.

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Excelsior editions

Excelsior editions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Miller, Diana F., author.

Fox, Elizabeth L., 1944- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7539