What were the emotional and moral imperatives that drove the world from nationalism and isolationism to a world of global alliances? Follow the Adjutant of the Third Division as he travels from California to Africa to Austria, meeting those who help him understand this new world including a gay teacher, a princess and a fourteen year old boy. And learn the role a single envelope plays in a horrible crime.

John Agnew (UCLA Distinguished Professor of Geography)
I was amazed that a thin volume reporting on the letters between four men in the same American family (plus a favorite schoolteacher early on) across the years of the Second World War and its two major theaters could contain so much insight into the conduct of the war, its human impacts, and the lessons for the world at large. It struck a particular chord because those lessons seem to be losing their effect at a time of increasing nationalism worldwide. That the principal letter writer, Steve, makes the useful and lasting distinction between Germans as people and Nazis as a sociopathic cult is important in making the overall argument for not falling into the trap of demonizing specific nationalities notwithstanding the evil done in their name... On the back cover the editor, David Rogers, asks: "Can we learn from these four men?" My response is an unequivocal "Yes!".

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