From Japan With Love By Mary A. Ruggieri

From Japan With Love By Mary A. Ruggieri

Paperback (264 Pages)

An American girl left college to join the Women's Army Corps during WWII, and volunteered for postwar duty in Japan. Sixty years later she shares that historic period of her life, 1946 to 1948, through her personal letters, journals and photographs from a country just beginning its recovery from war. This is an engaging account of an American WAC, at work and at play, coping with the U.S. Army, marveling at Japan's people, cultures and customs, lamenting the destruction and despair of war, and falling deeply in love with the soldier she would later marry. From Japan With Love is a personal and historical treasure, a story of East meets West, rich with details and striking, evocative images. Including factual sidebars, and over 400 historical photographs of postwar Japan 1946-1948 taken by the author