Love,Tommy Letters Home, from the Great War to the Present Day
‘Everybody too hates mud, but we bathe in it, wade in it, sleep in it and clods of it adorn the most secret recesses of one’s clothes, books and papers’
– Reverend Canon Cyril Lomax, France, 1916
‘Te land here is barren rock and desert for the majority with dust and sand in the air at all times, you stay clean for about 5 seconds once you step out of the gate, your lungs are filled with it all the sun is blinding’
– Kit Kyte, Afghanistan 2008
Author ISBN Price
Available Andrew Roberts 978 1 84908 791 9
UK £20.00 / US $25.95 / CAN $27.95 September 2012
Over the last 100 years the Imperial War Museum has been gathering together a collection of tens of thousands of letters and archives from British and Commonwealth troops serving on the frontline , i n conflict s fro m th e Firs tWorl dWa r throug h t o th e ongoing war in Afghanistan. Revealing the most intimate details of the lives of these soldiers, this collection uncovers the startling similarities between the men fighting in the muddy trenches
and carefully picking their way through the heat and dust of Afghan wadis.
A classic collection of war letters from the frontline, Love, Tommy reveals the common hopes and fears shared by soldiers across the passage of time.
“Tis book presents a moving (and historically valuable) selection of letters home, from the First World War to the present day… It is very hard to read this impressive volume with dry eyes.”