Letters From The Trenches

Author : Jacqueline Wadsworth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781592847

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Letters from the Trenches by Jacqueline Wadsworth Pdf

A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.??Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups Ð from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.??Voices within the book include Sergeant John Adams, 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who wrote in May 1917:'For the day we get our letter from home is a red Letter day in the history of the soldier out here. It is the only way we can hear what is going on. The slender thread between us and the homeland.'??Private Stanley Goodhead, who served with one of the Manchester Pals battalion, wrote home in 1916: 'I came out of the trenches last night after being in 4 days. You have no idea what 4 days in the trenches means...The whole time I was in I had only about 2 hours sleep and that was in snatches on the firing step. What dugouts there are, are flooded with mud and water up to the knees and the rats hold swimming galas in them...We are literally caked with brown mud and it is in all?our food, tea etc.'??Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home Front.

Author : Ken Catran
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781775530732

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Letters from the Coffin-Trenches by Ken Catran Pdf

Poignant YA historical romance between a teen who runs away to fight in World War One, and his sweetheart back at home. Harry Wainwright is 17, not quite 18, but he can't wait to enlist for the Great War - so instead of going back to boarding school he runs away to war. He does this with the help of his sweetheart, Jessica. They are a wholesome Edwardian couple, steeped in all the respectable morality of their age. Both are in love with romance. Their letters begin idealistically and enthusiastically but gradually both young people learn of the horror of war and its associated cynicism. Rather than a depressing read, this is an interesting chronicle of the times and a charming portrayal of innocent love. Finalist in the Senior fiction category of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2003.

Author : Mandy Kirkby
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781447249931

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Love Letters of the Great War by Mandy Kirkby Pdf

From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written. Many of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others contain wrenching accounts of fear, jealousy and betrayal; and a number share sweet dreams of home. But in all the correspondence – whether from British, American, French, German, Russian, Australian and Canadian troops in the height of battle, or from the heartbroken wives and sweethearts left behind – there lies a truly human portrait of love and war. A century on from the First World War, these letters offer an intimate glimpse into the hearts of men and women separated by conflict, and show how love can transcend even the bleakest and most devastating of realities. Edited and introduced by Mandy Kirkby, with a foreword from Orange Prize-winner Helen Dunmore.

Author : Laurence Housman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218159

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War Letters of Fallen Englishmen by Laurence Housman Pdf

More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown—brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.

Author : Noel Carthew
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 186436744X

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Voices from the Trenches by Noel Carthew Pdf

As 1914 drew to a close, little did anyone in Australia know that four years of warfare lay ahead. Mothers could not forsee the anguish they would suffer, nor wives and sweethearts their heartbreak. Young men had little idea of the grim reality of war as they marched off to do their patriotic duty for King and country.

Author : Philipp Witkop
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812208788

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German Students' War Letters by Philipp Witkop Pdf

Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German students who had left their university studies in order to participate in World War I, these letters reveal the struggles and hardships that all soldiers face. The stark brutality and surrealism of war are revealed as young men from Germany describe their bitter combat and occasional camaraderie with soldiers from many nations, including France, Great Britain, and Russia. Like its companion volume, War Letters of Fallen Englishmen, these letters were carefully selected for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. "Should these letters help towards the establishment of justice and better understanding between nations," the editor reflects in his introduction, "their deaths will not have been in vain." This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.

Author : Paul O'Prey
Publisher : Imperial War Museum
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912423323

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First World War Poems from the Front by Paul O'Prey Pdf

From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.

Author : Eugène-Emmanuel Lemercier
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782892922

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A Soldier Of France To His Mother; Letters From The Trenches On The Western Front by Eugène-Emmanuel Lemercier Pdf

The story of a renowned French painter who volunteered for the Army during the First World War paints a vivid picture of the horror at the front in his letters home written before his death in 1915. “A Bestseller, remarkable for the horrors of the western front conveyed in a spirit of self-sacrifice and filial love.”- A Companion to World War One ed. John Horne, Blackwell Publishing, 2012 “THE following letters were written by a young French painter who was at the front until the beginning of April, 1915, when he “disappeared” in one of the combats in the Argonne region of France. “Should he be spoken of in the present or in the past?” asks M. André Chevrillon , a friend of the soldier’s family, in the preface to the French edition of this book. “Since the day when his mother and grandmother received from him his last communication, a post card bespattered with mud which announced the attack in which he fell, what a tragic silence for these two women who, during eight months, had lived only with these letters, which came almost daily. In his studio, among the pictures in which this young man had fixed his dreams and his visions of an artist, I have seen, piously arranged on a table, all the little square white sheets of this correspondence. What a speechless presence! I did not know then what a soul was there transcribed in these messages to the family hearth - a fully formed soul, which, if it had lived, I feel sure would have spread its fame and its influence far beyond this little home circle and radiated a-wide among the hearts of men.””

Author : Glyn Harper
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775581116

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Letters from Gallipoli by Glyn Harper Pdf

Revealing and often heartbreaking, this collection of letters offers a powerful firsthand account of a pivotal event in New Zealand history: World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Grouped in chronological order, the correspondence—gathered from archives, newspapers, and family collections—details the campaign's harrowing conditions and key events, from preparation and landing on the Ottoman peninsula to the December withdrawal. In these epistles, the intense emotions of the men who survived the trenches are made known, whether it be jubilation at ground gained or sorrow at the passing of friends. Biographical notes on the letter writers, historic photographs, and a comprehensive introduction are also included.

Author : Bernd Ulrich,Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844687640

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German Soldiers in the Great War by Bernd Ulrich,Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI. German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of ordinary soldiers that have been covered up by the smokescreen of official military propaganda about “heroism” and “patriotic sacrifice.” In this essential collection of wartime correspondence, editors Benjamin Ziemann and Bernd Ulrich have gathered more than two hundred mostly archival documents, including letters, military dispatches and orders, extracts from diaries, newspaper articles and booklets, medical reports and photographs. This fascinating primary source material provides the first comprehensive insight into the German frontline experiences of the Great War, available in English for the first time in a translation by Christine Brocks.

Author : Harold W. McGill
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781552381939

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Medicine and Duty by Harold W. McGill Pdf

Medicine and Duty is the World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. McGill attempted to have his memoir published by Macmillan of Canada in 1935, but unfortunately, due to financial constraints, the company was not able to complete the publication. Decades later, editor Marjorie Norris came upon a draft of the manuscript in the Glenbow Archives and took it upon herself to resurrect McGills story. Norris's painstaking archival research and careful editing skills have brought back to light a gripping first-hand account of the 31st Battalion and, on a larger scale, of Canada's participation in World War I. A wealth of additional information, including extensive notes and excerpts from letters written "from the trenches," lends a new sense of immediacy and realism to the original memoir, and provides a fascinating, harrowing glimpse into the day-to-day life of Canadian soldiers during the Great War.

Author : Harry Lamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 184317832X

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Letters from the Trenches by Harry Lamin Pdf

Author : William C. Harvey,Eric T. Harvey
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612000282

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Letters from Verdun by William C. Harvey,Eric T. Harvey Pdf

The dramatic experiences of an ambulance driver in the Great War, told through personal correspondence and photographs. Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America’s burgeoning industrial heartland. Volunteering as an ambulance driver with the French Army in the Verdun sector, Royce sent back a constant stream of highly detailed letters describing the experience of frontline combat, as well as comments on strategy, the country he encountered, and the Allies’ prospects for success. This treasure trove of brilliant letters, only recently discovered, is accompanied by several albums worth of rare, high-quality photos depicting aspects of the Great War in France never previously published. Full of action, including the suspense and terror of the Ludendorff Offensive, and interesting firsthand analyses, such as comparing French and German trench works, Letters from Verdun brings the reader amazingly close to the frontlines of the Great War.

Author : Agnes Warner
Publisher : Diggory Press Limited
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Military nursing
ISBN : 9780951565568

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Nurse at the Trenches by Agnes Warner Pdf

Written from the French front by a brave Red Cross nurse, these home letters were hurriedly penned amid the incessant roar of the mighty guns and surrounded by the wounded and the dying. This collection provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of a nurse at war.

Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106018321486

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A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin Pdf

A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.