Love, Tommy: Letters Home, from the Great War to the Present Day

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· Bloomsbury Publishing
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Compiled by acclaimed British military history Andrew Roberts, this is a classic collection of war letters from the frontline revealing the common hopes and fears shared by soldiers across the passage of time.

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Love Tommy, is a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the front line of war to their loved ones at home.

Poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and thoughtful reflections, eloquently revealing how, despite the passage of time, many experiences of the fighting man are shared in countless wars and battles.

From the muddy trenches of the Somme to frozen ground of the Falklands to the heat and dust of Iraq, these letters are the ordinary soldier's testament to life on the front line.

Over de auteur

Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900. His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Chuchillians and Salisbury. His book, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War won the British Army Military Book of the Year for 2010. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a PhD in History from Cambridge University and lives in New York City.

IWM (Imperial War Museums) tells the stories of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since 1914. Our unique collections reveal stories of people, places, ideas and events. IWMs five branches are IWM London, IWM's flagship branch; IWM North; IWM Duxford; Churchill War Rooms; and the Second World War cruiser HMS Belfast.

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