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Jack Woodville London
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Captain Jack Woodville London, USA is “an internationally acclaimed author,
WWII historian and trial-attorney in Austin, TX. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Law School, and a former captain
in the US Army Quartermaster Corps. Jack’s foundation began when he was elected managing editor of the U.T International
Law Journal in 1970. Since then he has authored numerous technical articles and papers on various legal topics, and has spoken
at many legal programs both nationally and internationally. In 2003, Jack put aside legal writing to enroll in the prestigious
writing school of St. Céré, France where he graduated from among other esteemed writers. Jack has spent much
of his life exploring a deep interest in WWII and its effects on the home front—particularly small towns. His love for
writing and history united to produce his French Letters series of novels which have been internationally praised for their
meticulous historical research and ability to capture the language, attitudes, and moral culture of their setting.”
Jack Woodville London is the author of French Letters Book One: Virginia's War
and French Letters: Engaged in War.
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According to the book description of French Letters Book One: Virginia's
War, “French Letters: Virginia's War is a poignant novel that earned uncommon critical acclaim, being
named a finalist for "Best Novel of the South," an award given by the Anderson Foundation in honor of Willie Morris
and a finalist for the Military Writers Society of America award for Best Historical Novel of the Year. This first book of the French Letters trilogy is the tale of one woman's home
front experience, set against the back drop of the story of a small town that has plenty going on behind the scenes. It was
there one morning that an unexpectedly pregnant Virginia Sullivan read in her father's newspaper that she had supposedly eloped
with a soldier. This is news to Virginia, not to mention her "husband" Will Hastings, who was already off at war
and knows nothing of it.
Sullivan is the daughter of a small town's leading figure, a newspaper owner who,
because of his knowledge of everyone's personal business, runs the local black market in ration coupons and hard-to-get tires
and gasoline, and sister of Bart, a draft dodger who runs the post office while keeping her mail from going or coming and
preventing Will Hastings, the lead figure in French Letters: Engaged in War, from knowing that Virginia is pregnant or that
her father has published a phony story. There may be a World War going on thousands of miles away, but there's plenty going
on behind the scenes in Tierra, TX to keep Virginia preoccupied.”
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According to the book description of French Letters: Engaged in War,
“French Letters: Engaged in War, is the second book in the French Letters Trilogy. The companion to Virginia s War,
it is the story of Will Hastings, an army doctor caught up in the D-Day landings in Normandy and the drive to capture St.
Lo, France. Isolated from Virginia Sullivan and the events taking place at home, Will faces the demands of combat surgery
under fire and the losses of his brother, his friends, and his connection to home. Historically accurate and precise and covering
events from exactly the same time frame as the events in the first volume, Engaged in War is a novel of the will to survive
when war, distance, loss, and the uncertainty of the future separate a couple far beyond the breaking point.”
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