Ralph Ingersoll (1900-1985) wrote two novels, but is best known a major figure of 20th Century journalism, making his name as the editor of the New Yorker and Fortune, and later as the publisher of Life and Time magazines.
"This novel has an immediacy that will shock some readers...the poignancy of the love story calls to mind Ernest Hemingway." New York Herald-Tribune
Reardon took women as they were -- and in wartime Europe, they were like snowflakes in a blizzard.