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Dearest Irene: A Love Story of World War II Paperback – April 24, 2018

by Paul Johansen (Author)
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Dearest Irene is a love story of World War II. It is the true story of an arrogant, rebellious young man, a beautiful young woman and the love that sustained them through a year of military training, eighty-nine days of combat duty in Germany and nine months of boredom, temptation and danger waiting to get home. It is told through more than two hundred letters written by the young man to his wife and daughter during the final months of the War in Europe and the early months of Allied occupation. When his role in the war was over, and he was no longer a soldier, the man was still arrogant and even more rebellious, and the woman was still beautiful. But their youth was gone forever.

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  1. Print length
    234 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Mill City Press, Inc
  4. Publication date
    April 24, 2018
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.49 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1545627819
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1545627815
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mill City Press, Inc (April 24, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1545627819
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1545627815
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches

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Paul Johansen

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Paul Johansen, the author of Dearest Irene, is a native of Iowa. He earned advanced degrees in engineering and has been a college professor, a research laboratory manager and an entrepreneur. His published writing (including doctoral dissertation) has been technical and business related. In addition to published work, he has written several essays and short stories and a novel that will appear in 2019. He is married and the father of two children.

The idea for Dearest Irene materialized after the death of the author's wife's mother in 1996. Among her personal effects were 218 letters written by her husband during his service in the US Army in World War II. In addition to being intimate in nature, as one might expect of letters between young, recently-married adults in these circumstances, they contained valuable insights into Army life during training, combat and occupation, and many interesting references to world figures and events of the period. The author has transcribed these letters, researched the events, venues and personalities described in them, and created commentary that places the letters in the context of history as we now understand it. The result contains elements of action, romance, irony and pathos that render Dearest Irene as readable as good fiction and in many respects, more intriguing.

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