"A powerful testament to the realities of war." - Mike The Threads of the War series shares personal stories from real-life military history across the span of The 20th Century's War. With short stories from WWI and WWII, the reader is carried from one front of the war to another with emotionally compelling bursts. In Volume II, celebrate on the street of Paris in Summer 1914; dive under the coast of North Carolina in 1918, stand on the evacuated beaches of northern France in 1940; and peer into the minds of the confined and the liberated at camps in 1945. Each story in this collection opens the door to a unique personal facet of war; exposing the reader to the facts, fictions, and fallacies of armed violence. Following each story, the reader is provided specific and revealing facts about the events narrated, offering both entertainment and education within the time it takes to read a blog-post.