6.25" x 9.25", 318 page hardcover with dustjacket titled CRONKITE'S WAR: HIS WORLD WAR II LETTERS HOME by Walter Cronkite IV & Maurice Isserman/ National Geographic, ISBN # 978-1-4262-1019-8, 13/QGF-LPH/1 number line, Copyright 2013/ Walter Cronkite begins the book by telling the story of how he entered the reporting industry. At the time the Great Depression was in full swing, Europe was being devastated by the Nazis on one front, England was being bombed, the Japanese were on an Imperialistic land grab and preparing to bomb the United States at Pearl Harbor. Belgium was soon to be overrun and all was in a state of flux. Cronkite sails on ships in the North Atlantic and heavily engaged by German U-Boats. Over 1,000 cargo and troop carriers were being sunk in the north Atlantic during this time. Then Cronkite and his reporting buddies join up with the 8th Army Air Force n England, after a brief stay in North Africa, and after some training they are allowed to fly with the bombers on their missions over France and Germany. That was at a time when we were losing 6 out of 10 planes on these missions. A minimum of 60 brave aviators and any brass or newspapermen who dared fly on these suicide missions were in Harm's Way. And Cronkite was one of them. With his portable typewriter, he wrote his wife a letter everyday and sometimes more than one a day. He described the happenings and his personal experiences during the war years between 1943 and 1945 that he was active in Europe without ever returning home even for a short visit. He wrote such beautiful love letters to his wife and described such horrid scenes of war. It defies his imagination that man can kill at will and still love so deeply, all on the same day. Read it now so you will fully understand the memory of man at war and the inhumane conditions he witnessed while longing just to return home to the United States and live in peace with his wife.. A very touching story.

The book is complete and in VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear mainly to the dustjacket.