Books: Love Before D-Day

THE SIXTH OF JUNE (351 pp.).—Lionel Shapiro—Doubleday ($3.95).

If it had not been for the war, handsome young Brad Parker would have automatically climbed the masthead of his father-in-law's Connecticut newspaper and remained true to his socialite wife Jane. If it had not been for the war, lovely, English Valerie Russell would never have become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the...