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Best of the Book Nook: 'My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings' by Tracy Sugarman

a book cover with a letter and a title "my war"
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(original recording made in 2000)

Over the years I have interviewed a number of military veterans. That generation that lived through WWII is almost gone now. Tracy Sugarman took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He was an officer on one of
the landing craft that day. After the war he went on to a distinguished career as an illustrator. During the war he drew pictures of what he observed and sent them back to his wife. He assumed those images had been lost. But they weren't. Their discovery provided the inspiration for this book.

The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support from Washington-Centerville Public LibraryClark County Public LibraryDayton Metro LibraryWright Memorial Public Library, and Tipp City Public.

Vick Mickunas is the host of Book Nook on WYSO, which he created in 1994. He has conducted more than 1,700 author interviews, from Studs Terkel to Lee Child to John Glenn. He is a book critic for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News-Sun.