In the original dustsheet. Black cloth binding with silver title on the spine.

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All should read this book.

Over the last 100 years the Imperial War Museum has been gathering 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 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.

Review: Reading letters from the forces, combined with the organisation of the author, makes this book an important historical source, while being mindful of current affairs. There is a three-word description of war in one of the more recent letters which conveys the writer’s feelings to his reader, that is very powerful, written in the same paragraph of routine descriptions of how life was at that point. No more words were necessary.