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 ISBN 10: 0-9788489-3-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-9788489-3-4


Edited by Missy Martin and
Jesse Loren


176 pages

$12.95 U.S.A.





No one voice can entirely convey the emotional toll a soldier’s military service has on loved ones. Here are 38 voices. Step into the experiences of homefront women spanning from World War II to the Iraq War—mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, fiancés and friends—who, in their own words, tap into the reservoirs of unconditional love required of everyone who has ever loved a soldier. Share their wide range of feelings from the stress of giving up a loved one to military service, to the anguish when warriors are killed in action; from the anxiety of long separations, to the upheaval that can accompany living with wounded veterans. Glimpse other nuances of the military lifestyle like searching for personal identity and viable concepts of home in the face of deployments and frequent relocations. Each piece tells a unique story, and collectively they illuminate the pathos of this unsung microcosm of American society, and manage to uplift us in a way only raw honesty can.

Praise for Bombshells:

“War can be hell, not just for those caught on the battlefield, but for the mothers, daughters, sisters, and lovers left behind. Bombshells offers a tender, honest, unblinking window into the life of those who love a soldier, and explores the myriad ways that a human heart can hope, worry, and grieve.”
—Dinty W. Moore, author of The Accidental Buddhist

“The materials in Bombshells are truly unique in the large archive of writings on twentieth- and twenty-first-century wars. The authors of these memoirs, narratives, and poems are women with an intimate connection to soldiers of the conflicts to which the U.S. has contributed its military force during the various decades of the last century. Poignantly, unsentimentally, bravely, they reveal and explore the emotional costs that constitute their own form of heroism when soldiers are sent to combat.”
—Margot Norris, author of Writing War in the Twentieth Century

“Bombshells is simply brilliant and absolutely timely. Powerful, direct, beautiful, complex, tough, and always engaging. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the real price of war. I urge you to read this haunting and fascinating collection.”
—Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road

“The many voices of the homefront of war rise to choral status here, singing to us their longing and loss, determination and acceptance, mourning and patience, and most of all their loving loyalty to husbands, sons and daughters, fathers, brothers, and friends—and to their country, for their own futures are held as hostage to the vicissitudes of war as are those of the soldiers they honor. Despite the powerful rising chorus in which they chant as one, every story here remains individually voiced, so that we do not forget the profiles of each face awaited by his or her own beloveds. This gripping collection utterly transcends the politics of war, by showing us the many ways in which each war becomes all wars. This should be only the first of many such anthologies, because the stories of soldiers’ homefronts are as much a part of any war as what goes on over there.”
—Diana Hume George, author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America