The Home Fires: Wartime Letters Written from Mother to SonThe Home Fires is a true story of the unconditional love of a mother for her first born son away in the U. S. Navy during World War Two. This emotion is rivetingly documented through the letters written by Helen Price to her son, Edwin, from his arrival in basic training in October of 1944 through to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Japan in August of 1945. Not merely a unique supplement to the historical perspective of the World War Two era,