In January of 1939 when Barbara Greene, a beautiful young British actress, met Joe Kennedy, Jr., son of the American Ambassador, she could not have expected that their relationship would lead to her emigrating to the United States, learning to pilot a plane, and touring the eastern states to raise money for Bundles for Britain.  Neither could her brother, Kent, have foreseen his bitter retreat from Dunkirk when he left England in January 1940 to fight in France, or his subsequent service on the frontlines in Cornwall, North Africa, Sicily, and Burma.

In this intensively researched story of their war, we also hear the stories of other ordinary people who survived extraordinary circumstances.  Richly illustrated with photographs and documents, “Both Sides of the Pond, My Family’s War: 1933-1946” is a captivating book.