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Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

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About the book

A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home 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 Britis...Show more

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ISBN

9780300205381

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

Format

Paperback

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