No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion Oncology But under the burning midsummer

But under the burning midsummer sun

And a secret to keep

Get planning and get cracking

and she knows she has no choice but to risk her life for her country once more…

Rudolf Nureyev

No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion Oncology But under the burning midsummerThe acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War IIthe 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Womens Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing