Love and Sand
by Howard M. Layton
This great story of a man growing up to become the sort of man who could hold his head high, knowing that he did the
very best he could during a horrifically trying time for his country and his family, offers a meticulous description
of how WWII affected him mentally and as a person, for the rest of his life. He fought the forces trying to ruin
the world—Rommel and those who swore allegiance to Hitler and the Reich, especially those in Africa sworn to
destroy the RAF and the American Air Force. He gave up a girl in England, using a horrible lie, then lived on a
day-to-day basis, trying to get over her, yet still yearning to live enough to live enough to fly his planes into
combat and bullets and bombs.
This is a very engrossing story by a man who lived to tell it from his own memories. He overcame all the adversity
of the war and went on to greater heights than even he might have imagined for himself. Sometimes war does good things
to a person, after they live long enough to look back at it positively. World War II did many good things for the
survivors, those who were able to put it into perspective and remake their lives after the stark warfare of constant
battles of the mind, body and the soul.
Mr. Layton is a very handsome man, so much so that he was used as a stand-in for Robert Taylor in several movies
and also performed in a special engagement in front of Queen Mary. He has a wonderful, full life story to tell, and
it should be read by those who want to know more about the individual people who made up the whole of the fighting
machine that won the hearts of all the world during WWII. Love and Sand as a title comes from his initial
installation on the beaches of El Alamein in Africa, where he met many comely lasses and tried to fall in love to
take away the pain of the loss of his earlier true love. |
The Book |
Three Spires Publishing |
September 2008 |
Hardcover |
0967600855 / 978-0967600857 |
Memoir |
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The Reviewer |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf |
Reviewed 2008 |
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