Literary essays
February 1999
Fighting Fascism in Europe
The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War
by Lawrence Cane
On his first day in basic training in 1942, Lawrence Cane wrote to his wife Grace from Fort Dix, New Jersey. "I'm in the army now - really!", he wrote, complaining, "I don't have enough time to write a decent letter".;Three years later, Captain Lawrence C