I'll Be Home for Christmas: The Library of Congress Revisits the Spirit of Christmas During World War II

by Michael Shohl

America is ready to remember and honor the men and women who courageously served the nation during World War II. To celebrate those brave souls and their families, and the spirit that carried them... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038533463X
• ISBN13: 9780385334631
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The Real Chicken Soup for Your Soul

This book is by and about ordinary people in extraordinary times, whose prayers were sometimes answered, and sometimes not. It's also about real people at the one time of the year when everyone is vulnerable, people who mostly made it through the war with quiet faith and courage, despite everything. I remember as a young boy during this time seeing gold stars in peoples' windows at Christmas (a sign that they had lost a loved one) and yet right behind it, a Christmas tree. I bought "I'll Be Home for Christmas" for my daughter and told her that this book is the real "Chicken Soup for the Soul"--written by people who sometimes didn't have enough ration coupons for the chicken-or for a holiday goose-but celebrated anyway. It's a great history lesson and a good read.

Best Christmas Book Ever

I'll Be Home For Christmas is a must have. This book recreates Christmas time all over the world telling the stories of soldiers at the front, in prison camps (both sides), familys at home, and at internment camps. Filled with great pictures, excerpts from diaries, and newspaper clippings it leaves the reader with a feeling of gratefullness for what they went through. Some is funny, but most is thoughtful or just plain sad. Now I wouldn't put this up with say A Christmas Carol, but it is one that you can choose one story that means something in partucular to you. Each story being uniquely different,and is one that everyone can enjoy.