The War Comes to Plum Street

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 Migration and a New Start in the 1920s 1 2 Coping with Hard Times in the 1930s 20 3 The Slow Pull Upward, Late 1930s 47 4 Into the Storm, 1939–1941 73 5 Duty Calls Every Citizen, 1942 90 6 Bearer of Bad News, 1942 110 7 Urgent Preparation, 1943 134 8 Together, and Alone, 1943 165 9 Despair and Bitter Hope, 1944 194 10 Invasion, 1944 214 11 Will It Never End? 1945 247 12 We’ll Meet Again, 1945 272 Epilogue 292 Sources 301 Index 303 ...