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Passage Through History

Passage Through History

Passage Through History

Virginia Van Druten

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1st Book Library
Año de edición:
2002
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Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781403349583
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In 1858, near the Kansas/Missouri border, Elizabeth and Wid marry. Civil War disrupts their future. Wid joins the Union army, leaving Elizabeth pregnant and surrounded by Confederate sympathizers. She faces war and privation, having word of her husband only through his letters home.

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