Martha Bolton

This is a great book that will make you laugh and make you cry. Bob Hope definitely was the soldier's favorite and traveled across the globe to entertain the troops starting in WWII and lasting til the Gulf War. This book details letters soldiers from WWII sent to Hope as well as some of the letters Hope sent back to the soldiers. You really got a picture not only of how often and how far Hope traveled, but how long he was away, and then, when he did return home, that he then was working on a film or two. All of this while also doing his radio show that the soldiers loved to listen to, even after lights out. The book does mention something about cue cards not being invented til the 1950's but John Barrymore used them in the late 30's and early 40's. My only criticism of the book is the photographs are way to small. In most of them you can't even identify the people the caption says are in them. There are tons of photographs and it is just a darn shame that you need a magnifying glass to make anything out of them.… (mer)