Letters from the desert.
By: Translated from the Hebrew by Hilda Auerbach. Edited with an introd. by Shlomo Grodzensky.
Edition: 2nd Printing
Publisher: Sharon Books
Published: May 1945 1st Printing, March 1946 2nd Printing
Place of publication: 45 East 17 Street, New York, NY.
Language: eng
Format: Normal
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.; Jews -- Palestine.
Genres: Personal narratives, Jewish.
First sentence: Intro: These "letters from the desert" were written by a Jewish soldier to his wife, children, and friends during the first three years of the present war.
Book: Here I am at the training camp. There is a barbed wire fence around it and a stranger is on guard at the gate. The way home is both barred and distant; how far away Naan seems to me now! For the first time I see my home and my former life as if through a mist: a mist of longing. I know that this separation will be hard to bear and that it will not be a matter of a single year.
Description: Green hardcover. Original Title MIKHTAVIM MIN HAMIDAR. Originally published by HOZATT HAKIBUTZ HAMEUCHAD, Ain Harod, Palestine.
Notes: Translation of Mikhtavim min Hamidbar.
Excellent introduction about the history of the Jewish National Home.
The book consists of letters arranged in chronological order. The Jewish Soldier, Moshe Mosenson, is just a simple solder, a truck driver, but a wonderful observer of life and a skilled writer in discribing what he sees and what he feels. 
I am a Gentile and this is an excellent window into the Jewish faith of one man. I appreciate the insight Mooshe has given to me. 
Maury, 09/2009.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
class: part
title: Introduction; pagenum: 3
title: Recruit; pagenum: 15
title: Training Days; pagenum: 23
title: First Advance; pagenum: 75
title: Transjordan; pagenum: 103
title: Interlude; pagenum: 133
title: Desert Victory; pagenum: 167
title: Brother Meets Brother; pagenum: 189
title: Between Two Deserts