Very nice book. Minor wear to DJ edges and corners. Inscribed to previous owner by author on first page. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: A "well researched and beautifully written," love story based on letters and history of D-Day and Operation Market Garden. Nicky Bonilla was a soilder in the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment before it became part of the 101st Airborne Division. He became one of the best fighting men in the world. He was a New York Catholic of mixed ethnicity training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He had a tough body, a tender heart, a poetic soul, and a sense of humor. Opal Keith was a beautiful Southern girl, a Scots-Irish Protestant whose family had lived in South Carolina and Alabama since the American Revolution. She was innocent but intelligent and independent. As the greatest war in the history of humanity raged, Nicky and Opal fell in love. While Nicky trained in Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, while he was based "Somewhere in England," and as he fought through D-Day and Operation Market Garden, the couple wrote of their love, their faith, and their hope. Their daughter read their letters and met for the first time a man and a woman whom she had never really known. This is the story of man who went hungry, cold, and sleepless-a man who was willing to die for his wife and child, his friends, and his country. It is the story of a woman who gave her heart to a man who risked everything.