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It's November 1942, and the world is at war. A young man from Iowa enlists in the Army. He marries his sweetheart and a week later reports for training, beginning a journey which will take him nearly to Berlin as the 5th Armored Division spearheads the defeat of Hitler's forces. Fighting in Germany, he receives a telegram which makes his survival even more crucial. The letters he sends home to his wife and parents tie together this perspective on one of America's greatest challenges.

A country just coming out of the Depression quickly built a military force and produced arms, equipment and food to supply it. Families sent 16,000,000 of their young people to stop the Axis forces and give back freedom to vanquished countries around the globe. Everyone's life was ultimately changed. This book gives the reader a glimpse of those monumental years as a soldier’s wife and parents read his letters and pray for him to “"Hurry Home".