Description Ironically, the adventure That began with a fast-talking twelve-year-old runaway on a fishing boat becomes a nautical career.
Despite censors removing restricted defense information, these Letters illuminate how wartime punishes nations both weak and powerful, and individuals both military and civilian..
Collected here are some of those letters, many of which read with the excitement of an old-fashioned radio program with all of its twists and turns.
Only long and frequent Letters connect the couple and the families.
Her brother is an American soldier in England and France.
His family in occupied Holland is suffering and starving.
He must return to his duties at sea.
She moves with him to the West Coast, leaving her parents in New Jersey.
After a whirlwind courtship, they are married for fifty-two years.
For Dirk van Ekelenburg and Blanche Waldeck, first glances are enough to seal their fates.
An inquest into the incident brings him to the shipping company\'s offices in New York City, where he is captivated by a charming secretary.
By 1943, That boy is a debonair young Dutch Officer whose ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine.
Description Ironically, the adventure That began with a fast-talking twelve-year-old runaway on a fishing boat becomes a nautical career
