Kittling: Books

  First Line: It was March 13, 1945, and Ensign Jeanne Doll from Omro, Wisconsin, knew that something bad was going to happen . My grandfath...

  First Lines: Tuesday 9 March, 2010-- Guernsey 4 PM. "I think she's coming round, Anna. I'm sure I saw her blink. " When ...

  First Line: Julia turned her face into the hot Santa Ana wind, which had swept in as if it owned the place, whipping the linen curtains, a...

  First Line from Prologue: July 1943. General Walter Friedrich Schellenberg, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, raced his bla...

  First Line: When Dean Chatlain led his unit into battle in Southern Tunisia in early 1943, he did not expect the day's events would tu...

  First Line: March, 1943, Chungkai Camp, Thailand. It was a day just like any other .   It's a week before Jayne Sinclair will board a ...

  First Lines: August 27, 1942. Washington, DC. He stood with a pocketful of diamonds and a heart full of death, watching a Russian sniper s...

  First Lines: 17 October 1945. Maisie Shipley put down her copy of The Daily News and gazed out her kitchen window, momentarily taken an o...

  First Lines: Kent, England. 1947. Every morning as Rose Mackie leaned over the bars of the wooden cot and picked up her three-year-old dau...

  First Line from Preface: On the evening of 12 March 1945, soon after dinner, there was a knock on the door at a modest house in one of Tur...

  First Line from Prologue: " Imagine-- it's a year from now, 1941, or maybe even '42-- and Germany and the Axis have won the w...

  First Line: At twenty-nine, Florence Ebersole Smith knew the depths of terror as well as she knew her own family-- at least those who were...

  First Line: September 1944. Justine Byrne liked taking out the trash . After making numerous repairs on equipment that keeps failing for n...

  First Line: How could I think returning to this place would be a good idea ?   Despite her family in Florida begging her to return to the ...

  First Line from Preface: Chief Quartermaster Archie DeRyckere was more astonished than frightened .   Even the most popular and victorious...

  First Line: 3 September 1939. The mistress of the house was at work on the mayonnaise when the kitchen wireless began to speak of war .   ...

  First Line: In early February 2006, I was forty-seven and at the lowest point of my life .   Pino Lella is a typical seventeen-year-old bo...

First Line: Rose was always there, even while I was being born .   For twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her family, the happy, prosperous world t...