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Virginia s War is the poignant novel of a small Texas town where, during WWII in 1944, there was a bit of tarnish on the patriotic bunting and not everyone was eager to join up for the fight. It was there one morning that an unexpectedly pregnant Virginia Sullivan read in her father s... read more
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Read the first few chapters of French Letters: Virginia's War at www.virepress.com
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“Mr. Michael Sullivan wishes to announce that his daughter, Virginia Sullivan, of Tierra, and Captain Woodrow Wilson Hastings, a graduate of Tierra High School and the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston and now of the United States Army in Europe, entered into the holy state of matrimony before a justice of the peace in Clovis New Mexico during his leave over the Thanksgiving Holiday, November 25, 1943.”
Setting & Important Places
- Tierra, TX 1944: Small fictional town in Texas. Tierra is the Spanish word for earth.
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Authors & Contributors
- Jack Woodville London (Author)
Awards
- William C Morris Award (Finalist, 2009: Best Southern Fiction )
- Military Writer's Society of America (Finalist, 2009: Best Historical Fiction)
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- Dewey: 813
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