Christmas, 1940

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Book Overview

""Christmas: A Story"" is a heartwarming tale written by Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady of the United States. The story follows a young girl named Alice who is spending Christmas with her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312134010
• ISBN13: 9780312134013
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

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Christmas, 1940 was not a joyous time for most of the world. Britain was under constant air attack. Japan had occupied much of China and seemed poised for further aggression. And though America was at peace, she too would soon be drawn into a brutal world war. In that dark time almost fifty years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a story for Liberty Magazine about the meaning of Christmas. Set in Nazi-occupied Holland, Christmas 1940 is a tale about the simple, but susyaining faith of one family confronted with the evil force of the oppressor. Elliott Roosevelt writes in his introduction to this story that his mother's message to the downtrodden peoples of the world was "Have Faith...have faith and do not despair. Freedom will again be yours. As uplifting as it was in 1940, Eleanor Roosevelt's beautiful, moving story will remind us all once again of the true meaning of Christmas.