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Cam-Tech Publishing, P.O. Box 341, Fletcher, Ohio is pleased to announce release of the book:

Angels at The Station

From across America come the stories of quiet, unselfish, humanitarian service to meet the home front needs of our troops in WW II. Angels at The Station, tells the emotionally powerful story of unequaled volunteer service. At several small town railroad station platforms, trackside volunteers greeted millions of troops with friendly smiles, welcoming words, and baskets filled with food and other treats. There was a goodness so profound, powerful and right that it gave a renewed purpose to the struggle for liberty and freedom for mankind in a time of world emergency

This book is brim with stories from the canteens, the women who started them, letters from the soldiers who stopped and were greeted like family. One young soldier wrote of his visit to a canteen, "If you could only hear how these boys praise your hospitality. . . . It isn't the cookies that count - its the thought behind it."

Angels at The Station, chronicles of the real fabric of America during WW II. It celebrates the most outstanding humanitarian effort ever! At towns from Reno, Nevada; North Platte, Nebraska to Bellefontaine, Ohio; Clinton, Iowa and Connellsville, Pennsylvania, local groups recognized a greater need to provide a little food, a few moments of comfort and distraction at track side for the troops.

Stories include activities at the canteen; volunteers who served, from teenage girls to the distinguished service by Gold Star Mothers. The events of troop trains filled with green troops - and of returning veterans; hospital trains carried the wounded back from battlefields and even the Prisoner of War trains. Volunteers generously gave their time as a proclamation of support to those many stranger in uniform. The troops found the real fabric of America; this was what they were fighting for and wanted to come back to. . . .

Angels at The Station, tells the story of sincere appreciation for this spontaneous community gesture through letters from the troops, their wives’, parents and even passing observers. Heartfelt letters from young men and women will move you to tears of joy.

Scott Trostel has uncovered a dazzling story that goes to the foundation of American compassion From the terrible conditions of war rises a compassionate story of values and of selfless giving and mercy toward strangers.

This is a must read book!

Canteens related in this book:

Neodesha, Kansas; North Platte, Nebraska;   Bellefontaine, Ohio; Lima, Ohio; McCook, Nebraska, Aberdeen, South Dakota; Evansville, Indiana; Clinton, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; Crestline, Ohio; Troy, Ohio; Connellsville, Pennsylvania; Marion, Ohio; Dennison, Ohio; Waterloo, Iowa; Reno, Nevada;  Streator, Illinois. Additional stories include, incidents of the troops as they traveled by train; community support and foods donated in the time of rationing; the ladies who started them; lives of the canteen volunteers and things they endured, the Prisoner of War trains; the hospital trains and letters from the troops.

RELEASE DATE May 2008

TITLE: Angels At The Station

ISBN 978-0-925436-52-8 • 262 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • Soft cover

SUBJECT: WWII / Home Front / Railroads

Suggested Retail Price: $28.95

 

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Scott D. Trostel is one of America's leading historians on the WW II homefront and has written four other books about WW II canteens.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contract Scott D. Trostel 937-368-2489.