Peggy O’Toole Lamb’s ‘Darling: Letters from WWII’

Darling: Letters from WWII is the second time that author Peggy O’Toole Lamb turned to her family’s correspondence to tell a dramatic true tale.

The first was her debut book, Then I Won’t Seem So Far Away, a memoir of hitchhiking across Europe in the 1970s based on letters she sent to her mother. Darling, meanwhile, concerns the letters that her uncle First Lieutenant Frank J. Foster sent to his wife while commanding an anti-aircraft battalion in defense of General Patton against the Nazis.

The book was named as a finalist in the military category of the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The author explains more below.