My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings from World War II - Hardcover

Sugarman, Tracy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037550513X ISBN 13: 9780375505133

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

A firsthand account of the author's experiences as a young naval ensign during World War II presents a rich supply of watercolor paintings, sketches, drawings, and photographs, combined with a narrative that describes life on the front lines, his feelings about being separated from his wife, and the events of the Allied invasion of Europe. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Tracy Sugarman is a well-known illustrator whose work has appeared in major magazines and books and on television. During a long and successful career, he has received numerous awards from the Society of Illustrators in New York City and the Art Directors Club in Washington, D.C. His paintings and illustrations have been exhibited widely, including in a 1994 exhibition at the Naval Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day. Sugarman lives and works in Westport, Connecticut, in a home overlooking the sea.

From the Inside Flap:

7, 1941, when the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor, Tracy Sugarman was a young man studying to be an illustrator--and falling in love with a tawny-haired girl named June. But for Tracy, as for all Americans, everything changed that December dawn.
        Two years later, now married to June, Tracy was on a troopship bound for England, part of the massive Allied buildup for the liberation of Europe. On D-Day he landed on Utah Beach, one young ensign in the greatest military invasion in history.
        But Tracy Sugarman was not only a sailor. He was also an artist, who chronicled every aspect of his war in watercolors and sketches and in more than four hundred letters to his wife, who carefully saved everything her new husband sent her. Fifty years later, June Sugarman astonished her husband by showing him his long-forgotten pictures and words: lush watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings set down with breathtak

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 037550513X
• ISBN 13: 9780375505133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191