In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.
Includes letters by:
Martha Gellhorn, Alexander Hamilton,
Kurt Vonnegut, Mohandas Gandhi,
Mark Twain, June Wandrey,
Evelyn Waugh, Luis Alvarez,
Lord Horatio Nelson
& many more
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 01 There’s No Hope in War
- 02 I Shall Die With My Head Held High
- 03 The History of a Battle
- 04 All These must be Free
- 05 I Will Drive Them Away
- 06 Fleets and Armies would be Helpless
- 07 My Fellow Soldiers have No Beer
- 08 How it Hurts to Write This
- 09 We are yours in this Sisterhood of Sorrow
- 10 Hail Europe!
- 11 This Rain of Atomic Bombs will Increase Manyfold In Fury
- 12 You Babylonian Scullion
- 13 Must we hate them?
- 14 War is Cruelty, And you cannot Refine it
- 15 The God of Battles
- 16 Exhausted but Exhilarated
- 17 Keep it and Honor it always
- 18 Please Spare her
- 19 The Most Extraordinary Scene
- 20 Cornwallis and his Army are Ours
- 21 Why can’t We have a Soldier’s Pay?
- 22 This is Quite True
- 23 The Zulus Were on us at Once
- 24 These Things aren’t Trivial to Me
- 25 My Dear Family, Please Forgive Me
- 26 For The Sake of Humanity
- 27 The Sons of Ham
- 28 It is all Going to Hell
- 29 I Have Done My Duty
- 30 Sleep Well My Love
- Permission Credits
- Acknowledgements
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