" "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke-these young people had no idea what kind...

"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England--the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade--known to early Americans...

"'Ruth Bass is SO GOOD at this! In her captivating prequel to Sarah's Daughter she returns us to an earlier time of (mostly) benevolent country folk, furnished with barns, square dances, quilting needles, and dinners of beans and biscuits, capturing the joys and sorrows, the struggles and hopes of the past with absolute authenticity and freshness. (-Judith Viorst, best-selling author).'"--Page 4 of cover.