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JD1970 · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 1670

Thanks smallholder.
I've read the introduction and can't wait to get started on the main part of the book.
For those who don't know it, the book is a collection of letters written between 5 friends (1 nurse and 4 soldiers) just before and during the first World War and it looks facinating.
Going to snuggle up on my bed for an hour to get started.

Sniggle · Joined: 25 Apr 2009 Posts: 747 Location: Essex

I really like this type of book. I haven't read this particular one but have got some from the Forgotten Voices series.

We should not forget

JD1970 · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 1670

Brilliant!
The war has only just begun and the boys have only just left school, but already their plans of going to university have been replaced by plans of going to war. It seems to have happened in the click of a finger. Amazing how war has such an immediate and lasting effect.
I'm going to love this book.

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7356

I'm glad that you feel you are going to enjoy it. Visit the web link I gave for the relevant poetry and the WW1 archive as you read it too.

pink_monkey · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

This looks like something I would enjoy, I am going to look into it.
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JD1970 · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 1670

Its a really touching book. My OH thinks that books of letters shouldn't be published because they were written as private conversations between two people. I can sort of see hhis point, but a book like this gives you so much insight into what life was like.
Even though I knew what was coming, I still cried... more than once.
Have you got it yet pink_monkey?

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7356

Yes it is touching. Letters are very personal but as you say thats why they are so fascinating. When I read the ones between Edward and Mrs Simpson in another book it altered my previous perceptions about this bit of history.