Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front by Fletcher, Anthony - 2016

Yale University Press, 2/9/2016 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Very Good. 0.7283 in x 8.4291 in x 5.8504 in.

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Yale University Press, 2/9/2016 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Very Good. 0.7283 8.4291 5.8504.

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Yale University Press, 2016-02-09. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

Yale University Press. Used - Very Good. 2016. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good.

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New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. First printing. Rear cover and some pages creased. 2013 Trade Paperback. xv, 328 pp. This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany. This resulting volume offers a vivid account of the physical and emotional experiences of seventeen British soldiers whose letters survive. Drawn from different regiments, social backgrounds, and areas of England and Scotland, they include twelve officers and five ordinary “Tommies.” The book explores the… Read More