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Dearest Letty: The World War II Love Letters of Sgt. Leland Duvall
Leland Duvall
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Description for Dearest Letty: The World War II Love Letters of Sgt. Leland Duvall
Hardcover. Num Pages: 303 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
Leland Duvall was a now-and-again farm worker with a grade-school education when he received his World War II draft notice at his father’s farm near Moreland, Arkansas, in March of 1942. He departed for training in California, where he began to write to Letty Jones, a Pottsville girl he’d had a crush on for several years. From the first correspondence through the end of the war, Leland sent Letty a torrent of letters, hundreds of careful and undeniably heartfelt missives—utterly tender but never sentimental, reliably charming and gently humorous—written daily from desert sands, pup tents, hospital beds, armored cars, and ... Read more
Leland Duvall was a now-and-again farm worker with a grade-school education when he received his World War II draft notice at his father’s farm near Moreland, Arkansas, in March of 1942. He departed for training in California, where he began to write to Letty Jones, a Pottsville girl he’d had a crush on for several years. From the first correspondence through the end of the war, Leland sent Letty a torrent of letters, hundreds of careful and undeniably heartfelt missives—utterly tender but never sentimental, reliably charming and gently humorous—written daily from desert sands, pup tents, hospital beds, armored cars, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289766
SKU
V9781557289766
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About Leland Duvall
Ernie Dumas is a columnist for the Arkansas Times and former associate editor and reporter for the Arkansas Gazette. He is the editor of The Clintons of Arkansas and cowriter with Tom Glaze of Waiting for the Cemetery Vote (University of Arkansas Press).
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