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Come Share My Foxhole
He left to serve his country and she remained at home to raise their toddler son. Could their marriage survive the deadliest war in history?
Living in a small town in Indiana, Karl Floyd felt that he was a lucky man when the most beautiful girl in the world became his wife. With America on the rise after the Great Depression, a steady paycheck, and a son, he was filled with pride. His dreams were interrupted when he was drafted into the United Sates Army during World War Two. His transformation from civilian to a battle ready soldier took him to stops in Wyoming, California, Ohio, and Virginia before he was shipped to England for his ordnance company's nine month long D-Day preparations. After D-Day, he spent fifteen months on continental Europe as the Allies pummeled Nazi Germany to unconditional surrender. His war experiences changed Karl from a confident, but inexperienced, young man into a hardened battle weary veteran. He wrote letters to Evie detailing his exciting and mind numbing journey as if she were hunkered down next to him in a muddy foxhole with buzz bombs flying overhead.
Nineteen year old Evelyn “‘Evie” Floyd's life was going exactly as she had prayed to God for, but she struggled when Karl was torn away from his family by the war. Knowing that Karl was braving the frontlines of battle. Lonely and afraid, she wrote Karl letters of hope, worry, and anxiety. Knowing that he was braving the frontlines of battle, she didn't dare divulge the heartbreaking truth about their son Larry’s handicaps.
This true love story brought to life by his parents' actual wartime letters, Ric Floyd takes the reader through the trials and tribulations faced by millions of young American men and women during World War Two. Reading Karl and Evie's deeply personal correspondence along with newspaper articles before, during, and after the war, readers will be transported to a time that few participants of the war cared to speak about.
Come Share My Foxhole is a moving historical memoir. If you like stories of human endurance during times of strife and young couples battling for their future, you will adore Karl and Evie’s hope-filled and perilous adventure.
Living in a small town in Indiana, Karl Floyd felt that he was a lucky man when the most beautiful girl in the world became his wife. With America on the rise after the Great Depression, a steady paycheck, and a son, he was filled with pride. His dreams were interrupted when he was drafted into the United Sates Army during World War Two. His transformation from civilian to a battle ready soldier took him to stops in Wyoming, California, Ohio, and Virginia before he was shipped to England for his ordnance company's nine month long D-Day preparations. After D-Day, he spent fifteen months on continental Europe as the Allies pummeled Nazi Germany to unconditional surrender. His war experiences changed Karl from a confident, but inexperienced, young man into a hardened battle weary veteran. He wrote letters to Evie detailing his exciting and mind numbing journey as if she were hunkered down next to him in a muddy foxhole with buzz bombs flying overhead.
Nineteen year old Evelyn “‘Evie” Floyd's life was going exactly as she had prayed to God for, but she struggled when Karl was torn away from his family by the war. Knowing that Karl was braving the frontlines of battle. Lonely and afraid, she wrote Karl letters of hope, worry, and anxiety. Knowing that he was braving the frontlines of battle, she didn't dare divulge the heartbreaking truth about their son Larry’s handicaps.
This true love story brought to life by his parents' actual wartime letters, Ric Floyd takes the reader through the trials and tribulations faced by millions of young American men and women during World War Two. Reading Karl and Evie's deeply personal correspondence along with newspaper articles before, during, and after the war, readers will be transported to a time that few participants of the war cared to speak about.
Come Share My Foxhole is a moving historical memoir. If you like stories of human endurance during times of strife and young couples battling for their future, you will adore Karl and Evie’s hope-filled and perilous adventure.
315 pages, Paperback
Published March 29, 2019
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