Bøger udgivet af Walter J. Willey Book Co.

Meet Lieutenant Adeline Peterson, war correspondent in eleven theaters of war - a brave, determined, and resilient woman who broke gender biases to photograph the world and document the atrocities of war. § Caught in a Black Blizzard in Oklahoma, endured swarms of locusts ¿ § Photographed Depression-era dance marathons, visited illegal speakeasies ¿ § Detained by a Nazi officer under gunpoint in Czechoslovakia ¿ § Fled Paris on foot and got caught in the Blitz in London ¿ § Photographed the Nazi takeover of Greece ¿ § Jailed in Belgrade by the Gestapö § Photographed the first bomb to fall on Moscow ¿ § Torpedoed at sea in North Africa in a convoy headed töwar ¿ § Hit by Junker planes in a B-17 Flying Fortress ¿ § Stowed away on a hospital ship during D-Day and arrested ¿for disobeying orders ¿ § Witnessed machine-gun fire during the liberation of France ¿ § Almost hit by Japanese snipers on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima ¿ § Arrested for disobeying orders during the battle of Okinawa ¿ § First war correspondent to document the liberation of the ¿Buchenwald concentration camp ¿ § Toured Mengele's torture chambers after the liberation of the ¿Dachau concentration camp ¿ Witnessed Disease X after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Photographed refugee's after the war for the Quakers.

With meticulous research about the forties era, the novel is about three diverse women on the home front during WWII. A woman welder on a liberty ship bringing her children to the first daycare center in Richmond, A Negro woman welder whose brother is in the Port Chicago explosion and husband is a Tuskegee Airman. The third woman is a Japanese American storekeeper who is interned in a horse stable in San Bruno.