A powerful collection of correspondence between soldiers and their
sweethearts during World War I. From the private papers of Winston
Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, this
book 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 start of World War I,
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.