Love Letters of the Great War
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.…
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Weitere Autoren: Dunmore, Helen (Vorwort v.)
- ISBN: 978-0-230-77283-0
- EAN: 9780230772830
- Produktnummer: 20390573
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.3 cm 322 g
- Gewicht: 322
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Mandy Kirkby is an editor and author of The Language of Flowers: a Miscellany. Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed bestselling author, poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize; The Betrayal, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; Mourning Ruby, House of Orphans, Counting the Stars. Her 2014 novel The Lie is set during and just after the First World War.
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