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Love Letters from the Front will be broadcast at 11:55 BST each weekday on BBC Radio Ulster from Thursday 21 April, and will be repeated each weeknight at 23:50 BST.
"In amongst all the World War One books I came across the book 'Love Letters from the Front'," producer Ian Dougan recalls.
By the time the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917, the earth had already been shuddering with the thunder of battle for three years through Europe and on the high seas.
Madrid, 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War Edited by Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks Routledge, 484 pages, $40 James Lardner, son of Ring Lardner, writes to… ...
Between "Saving Private Ryan," "Band of Brothers" and "Black Hawk Down"--not to mention our current involvement in Afghanistan--war has been in the forefront of American culture in recent times.
The letters give a vivid glimpse into the soldier's ordeal. Scenes from jazzy night life in New York City to an arduous voyage on the Queen Mary, and battle stories including an account of losing ...
All very trivial, perhaps — yet is there not something stirring in this nearly 100-year-old letter, written in a hurry from the front or God knows where, that speaks of the loyalty of a Jewish ...
My dearest Martha, I'm writing to you from the front lines of the War on Christmas. I know you didn't want me to enlist, Martha, but I felt I had a civic duty to my country. I am but a humble, red ...
From the Revolutionary War to Operation Desert Storm - newly discovered letters read by celebrity actors tell of courage, longing, and sacrifice.
Handwritten letter from WW1 solider tells remarkable first-hand story of Christmas truce Private Henry Williamson wrote of how he was given German tobacco during the unofficial truce that lasted ...
Carroll seems tormented by the fact that the often beautifully descriptive, passionately written letters from the front lines are just languishing unread in boxes, or even worse, about to be ...
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