So Long for Now: A World War II Memoir

About the Book

In World War II, Bill Dwyer served as a Stars & Stripes correspondent with the US Fourth Infantry Division in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany (often in company with Collier’s correspondent Ernest Hemingway). He was a member of a six-man truce party who went behind enemy lines for three hours and worked to negotiate the surrender of Rothenburg, a walled Bavarian city dating to the 14th century. For this action he was awarded the Bronze Star.

About the Author

Veteran journalist William M. Dwyer was for many years a book editor and columnist, mostly with the Times of Trenton, New Jersey, specializing in American and New Jersey history. He was the author of The Day is Ours! How a Ragged Rebel Army Stood the Storm and Saved the Revolution, published by the Viking Press, and What Everyone Knew about Sex, a spoof of Victorian sexologists published both in the USA and in England.