Love Letters from the Marine Wolf is a biography of the World War II hospital and troop transport ship USAT Marine Wolf. The story is told from the perspective of Sergeant Michael Makros Jr., ship's complement surgical technician, and other shipmates under Army Transportation Command 9222 TSU TC. Their letters, photographs, documents, memorabilia, and testimonials take history below deck to find the human experience of a wartime ship at sea. 

Letters of a marine (1941–1946) to his family and girlfriend. Read about experiences of a marine raider in the South Pacific during WWII. Letter after letter takes you through a phase of a young marine's life and how he lived his life later.

"My memories of The Battle of Bloody Ridge."--Pages 423-426.

This book tells the story of one family's experience during World War II. The story is woven around the letters of Jake and Jean, which were written during the four years from 1942 to 1945 when Jake was serving in the US Marines. During the first two years, Jake and Jean were looking forward to marriage. In the middle of Jake's four years in the Marines, Jake and Jean got married. Near the end of the four years, while Jake was 7,000 miles away, on his way to Okinawa, the last great battle of the war, Jean gave birth to their first child, a son, Johnnie. This is not the story just of Jake and Jean but also of other members of their families, both those left behind on the home front and those who served in other theaters of the war. How did the members of these two families remain calm in the midst of the swirl of emotions caused by the war? The letters never directly mention the horrors of war that surrounded the deployed soldiers. The letters all attempt to carry on ordinary daily life in a world that had gone mad.

This is the first volume of the series, Love Letters, and is subtitled "Him to Her." In this book series Derek Fletcher explores a phenomenon of interest to everyone, love! This is not an attempt to define love, explain it or otherwise sanitize it. Derek believes that valiant attempts to do this have already been made. He also believes that though some of these efforts by poets, philosophers and writers have proven to be interesting, and even profound, that ultimately seeking to define love is a futile endeavor. So in a creative and engaging way Derek has chosen to offer the reader what we all truly desire...the experience of love.Through the medium of love letters the reader is given a direct entry into the hearts, minds and souls of people who are grappling with the intricate challenges and pleasures that only love can bring. This first volume contains 14 different love letters. Each has its own purpose, meaning and context which the reader will personally experience. As the reader, you're given an unfiltered view into one of the most intimate exchanges that two people can share. Love letters, whether writing or receiving them, is love happening. The entire process is the meaning. Joy, sadness, confusion, anger, innocence and betrayal are all on display in these love letters. From the very first letter you'll be hooked! Read it now...

From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written. Many of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others contain wrenching accounts of fear, jealousy and betrayal; and a number share sweet dreams of home. But in all the correspondence – whether from British, American, French, German, Russian, Australian and Canadian troops in the height of battle, or from the heartbroken wives and sweethearts left behind – there lies a truly human portrait of love and war. A century on from the First World War, these letters offer an intimate glimpse into the hearts of men and women separated by conflict, and show how love can transcend even the bleakest and most devastating of realities. Edited and introduced by Mandy Kirkby, with a foreword from Orange Prize-winner Helen Dunmore.