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Letters from the Front: From the First World War to the Present Day

Letters from the Front: From the First World War to the Present Day

by The Imperial War Museum (Author), Professor Andrew Roberts (Author)

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Synopsis

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Letters from the Front is a collection of correspondence sent by British and Commonwealth troops from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and thoughtful reflections, eloquently revealing how, despite the passage of time, the experiences of the fighting man are shared in countless wars and battles across history. From the muddy trenches of the Somme through the frozen ground of the Falklands to the heat and dust of Afghanistan today, these letters are the ordinary soldier's testament to life on the front line.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 328
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 20 Mar 2014
ISBN 10: 1472803345
ISBN 13: 9781472803344
Book Overview: Compiled by acclaimed British military history Andrew Roberts, this is a classic collection of war letters from the frontline revealing the common hopes and fears shared by soldiers across the passage of time.

Media Reviews

This book presents a moving (and historically valuable) selection of letters home. --Daily Mail (UK)

From a top World War II historian comes a delightful collection of correspondence by British soldiers, sailors, and aviators. --The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Winter 2013)

.. .provides a collection of original writings gathered by the Imperial War Museum from the last hundred years, revealing the daily lives of soldiers and offering comparisons between the experiences of those fighting different wars. From anecdotes and reflections on experiences to discussions of rations and expressions of love and fear, these capture the hopes, fears and struggles of the universal soldier no matter what the war, and are packed with solid reflections. --James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review (January 2013)

Author Bio
Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West (which won the International Churchill Society Book Award) and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 (which won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Book Award). His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Chuchillians and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize. His latest book, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, won the British Army Military Book of the Year for 2010. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a PhD in History from Cambridge University. Many of the photos in this book come from the Imperial War Museum's huge collections which cover all aspects of conflict involving Britain and the Commonwealth since the start of the twentieth century.