The Longest Night
As the wife of an active-duty naval officer, Andria Williams recognizes the range of difficulties that can be encountered by military spouses. In her first novel, The Longest Night, Williams transfers that intimate knowledge to a more distant past, writing about an Army husband deployed to Idaho Falls in 1959. Accompanying Paul is his wife, […]
Next to Love
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, Who cheer when soldier lads march by Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. This excerpt from a World War I poem by Siegfried Sassoon might well serve as an epigraph for Ellen Feldman’s World War II novel, Next to Love. Feldman […]