The Things They Left Unsaid

A Personal History of World War II

This is the table of contents of my book in progress–soon to wend its way out into the world.

Chapter 1: The Beginning in the End

Chapter 2: Margaret Young’s and the Lesson of Resilience, 1917-1939

Chapter 3: Gordon Morse and the “Poets of the Twentieth Century,” 1916-1939

Chapter 4: Lost in the Haunted Wood, 1939-1941

Chapter 5: You’re in the Army Now, 1941

Chapter 6: Pearl Harbor, 1941-1942

Chapter 7: Officers and Engineers, 1942

Chapter 8: 325th Combat Engineers, Company C, 1942-1943

Chapter 9: Garrison Life and Army Wife, 1944

Chapter 10: From Carolina to Combat, 1944

Chapter 11: Operation Dogface, 1944

Chapter 12: Lemberg, 1944

Chapter 13: The Damn Engineers, 1944-1945

Chapter 14: Bitscherland, 1945

Chapter 15: Your Job in Germany, 1945

Chapter 16: Homeward Bound, 1945-1946

Chapter 17: Home as Found, 1946-1952

Chapter 18: Reunion

Chapter 19: The End in the Beginning

Margaret Youngs and Gordon Morse the day they got engaged