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LOVE, TOMMY
LETTERS HOME, FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE PRESENT DAY |
| By: |
Andrew Roberts, The Imperial War Museum |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1849087911 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781849087919 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
5 September, 2012 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Presents a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. |
| Synopsis: |
Over the last 100 years the Imperial War Museum has been gathering together a collection of tens of thousands of letters and archives from British and Commonwealth troops serving on the front line, in conflicts from the First World War through to the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Revealing the most intimate details of the lives of these soldiers, this collection uncovers the startling similarities between the men fighting in the muddy trenches of the Somme, yomping across the frozen ground of the Falklands and carefully picking their way through the heat and dust of Afghan wadis. Love, Tommy is a selection of some of the most emotive of these letters. Correspondence which includes poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and thoughtful reflections, all of which reveal how, despite the passage of time, many experiences of fighting men are shared in countless wars and battles. |
| Illustrations: |
35 b/w; 5 col |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Osprey Publishing |
| Returns: |
Returnable |