Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918

The men wrote home, and this is what they actually said. Gathered from soldiers of the Great War, these letters run the whole span from the first enthusiasm to the last exhaustion: the trenches, the jokes, the food, the fear, and the reassurances written for mothers who were never going to be reassured. The war in its own voice, unedited by hindsight.