Bernard Spiro

The Other War: Letters from a Gi in India in 1944 & 1945 Bernard Spiro

A sardonic, lightly satirical tone prevails as a young GI finds waste and incompetence at every turn in the relative safety of the military in the remote locale of India in World War II. In the real war our soldiers in Europe and the South Pacific were dying in foxholes, but Bernie had all the time in the world in the other war to write home about the new gentler experiences he was living through. His mother saved over 600 of his letters, and he now shares some of them in his autobiography, The Other War.