She intended to mention the Springfield Armory in passing but once she conducted more research, she realized that Springfield in the ’40s provided a much richer setting. She also wanted to set her novel in Brooklyn and Springfield, Mass., the same two cities where her own family had lived. So, in reading the story behind the book, the author Lynda Cohen Loigman knew that she wanted to write a story that focused on two sisters. However, The Wartime Sisters focuses on the lives of women in the U.S. Oftentimes, WWII historical fiction is about the fight that took place in Europe. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives. The story is about two estranged sisters that were raised in Brooklyn and are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII.
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