Title: Home front soldier
First published: 1999
Description: While other collections of letters and memoirs from World War II have dealt with upper-class individuals, officers, or college-educated people, Home Front Soldier is the first to explore the life of an ordinary, working-class, first-generation American. This gripping story of a young soldier, Philip L.

Aquila, and his Italian American family during the Second World War includes a detailed introduction, providing historical context to the more than 500 letters that this sergeant wrote to his family back home in Buffalo, New York.
Subjects: American Personal narratives, Biography, Correspondence, Italian American families, Italian American soldiers, Personal narratives, American, Social life and customs, Soldiers, United States, United States. Army, World War, 1939-1945, Italian Americans, World war, 1939-1945, biography, Italians, united states, United states, army, biography, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, american, Buffalo (n.y.), Families
Places: Buffalo, Buffalo (N.Y.), New York (State), United States
People: Philip L. Aquila (d. 1994)
LC classification: D811 .A646 1999