If You're Reading This...: Last Letters from the Front Line - Hardcover

Sian Price

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848326106 ISBN 13: 9781848326101

Publisher: Frontline Books, 2011

Synopsis

Throughout history, soldiers have known that they run the daily risk of being killed in action for their country. When you are stationed on the front line, it is an ever-present danger. Hence, for more than three centuries, soldiers have been writing farewell letters to be read in the event of their death a last link with that person, and a voice from beyond the grave. If You¹re Reading This brings together a collection of these letters through history. Starting with the Napoleonic Wars and concluding with Iraq and Afghanistan, the book not only reveals farewell letters from soldiers of all ranks and nationalities, but tells a potted history of each individual soldier and his or her story. Where possible, the book will also explore the reaction and impact of those letters on the family who received them. Historically, these letters have been an opportunity to express feelings, facts, and instructions, but overwhelmingly they¹re a message of love to those who are left behind. If You¹re Reading This promises to be a poignant, timely and ultimately uplifting book, which gets to the human heart and real voice of warfare.

About this title

About the Author

Siân Price is an award-winning television and radio producer whose credits include Time Team and Coal House. She has a BA in History from Warwick University and an MA in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia. This is her first book. The Radio 4 documentary from which the book has grown won a New York World Radio Award for History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848326106
• ISBN 13: 9781848326101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288