Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America's Military Family

Frank Schaeffer

ISBN 10: 078671462X / ISBN 13: 9780786714629

Published by Da Capo Press October 2004, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America's Military Family
• Publisher: Da Capo Press October 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078671462X
• ISBN 13: 9780786714629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

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Synopsis

Frank Schaeffer draws on his relationships with America's military families to gather a timely and powerful collection of writing from the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like Keeping Faith and Faith of Our Sons, Voices from the Front bridges the divide between those who are in, or who have family members in the military, and the rest of us who can take that service for granted. It is a book about the intimately emotional and human side of military service. While Faith of Our Sons reflected this war through the homefront struggles of a quietly courageous community of families, Voices From the Front takes us directly to the often invisible front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan: from first deployment to patrols to combat to field hospitals and, in some cases, homecoming. As Schaeffer has written of a group he has come to think ofpolitics apartas the next greatest generation, "We need to know the men and women in combat better and to understand what they are going through. " Powerful, moving and undeniable, Voices from the Front tells the story of this war in the voices of the Americans who are livingand dyingin it every day.

About the Author

Frank Schaeffer is the author of three novels including the just published "Zermatt," "Saving Grandma," and the highly acclaimed "Portofino." His novels have been translated into eight languages. Frank is also the co-author, with his son John Schaeffer, Cpl. USMC, "Keeping Faith--A Father-Son Story About Love And The United States Marine Corps" and the author of "Faith of our Sons: A Father's Wartime Diary. Frank has worked as a movie director and artist and lived in Switzerland, England, South Africa and the USA, where he resides in Boston and New York City.