Letters to Barbara
By: Leo Meter ; with an afterword by Barbara Meter ; translated by James [i.e. Joel] Agee.
Contributors: Meter, Barbara.; Agee, Joel.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Meter, Leo -- Correspondence.; Meter, Leo -- Relations with Jews.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.; Jews -- Persecutions -- Netherlands.; Jewish children -- Netherlands -- Correspondence.; Soldiers -- Germany -- Biography.
Description: Like Anne Frank's diary, these letters are a true document of war, imbued with a touching immediacy. Papaleo's amusingly illustrated letters to his daughter are filled with charming tales about such things as holidays, a bird that doesn't like vanilla ice cream, a funny dream he had after eating bean soup.

Writing not about battles and politics but about children being separated from their parents, what a soldier's day is like, and what he sees in the cities he passes through, Leo Meter provided for his daughter and for those who read this remarkable correspondence a view of war that combines a profound sense of loss with a promise for a better and happier future.