​In honor of Frank H. Pierce III, his family is once again publishing his beloved story, A Boy's Eye View of World War II and Other Reminiscences of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. 

A Boy's-Eye View of World War II and Other Reminiscences of Maryland's Eastern Shore, by Frank H. Pierce, is precisely that - the warm but extremely accurate account of "home front" life in a small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the War. Written as seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the small town of Princess Anne, Maryland during the Second World War, Frank Pierce's detailed account of his experiences on the Eastern Shore of Maryland during wartime is invaluable for the historian and any others interested in how World War II affected small-town America.​​

In his remarkably engaging history, Frank Pierce relates how World War II touched on all aspects of daily life in Princess Anne, Maryland: how gasoline and food rationing worked, what it was like to have a garrison of American Infantry suddenly thrust into the middle of the peaceful and isolated life of a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and how his close-knit community adjusted to several thousand German prisoners-of-war, camped not more than five miles away. In addition to recalling life on the homefront during World War II, Frank Pierce examines the isolated and insular nature of Eastern Shore of Maryland itself, a region either blessed or cursed by geography and the Chesapeake Bay to remain separate and distinct from the increasing urbanization of America's East Coast. With engaging insight, he analyzes the Eastern Shoreman's attitudes on race relations, on wetlands, farming, education, and even the controversial "right to bear arms." And he recounts the closure of this almost classic sociological isolation with the opening of the great Chesapeake Bay Bridge shortly after the War and the ultimate demise of what had become known as the "Eastern Shore Way of Life." 

Frank Pierce, in his book, A Boy's-Eye View..., provides primary source information for the historian and the sociologist about the geography, people, and places of the Eastern Shore, including Princess Anne, Deal Island, Salisbury, Ocean City, Pocomoke, the Wetlands, among other locations, and provides rare insight into the lives and character of true Eastern Shoremen. 

To inquire about ordering this wonderful keepsake book about life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore during the Second World War, in softcover or ebook formats, please contact Heritage Books.