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Original Title:	War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
ISBN:	0743410068 (ISBN13: 9780743410069)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2002)

War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

Andrew Carroll

Paperback | Pages: 512 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 951 Users | 95 Reviews

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In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection—including never-before-published letters that appear in the new afterword. Here are letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf war, Somalia, and Bosnia—dramatic eyewitness accounts from the front lines, poignant expressions of love for family and country, insightful reflections on the nature of warfare. Amid the voices of common soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, nurses, journalists, spies, and chaplains are letters by such legendary figures as Gen. William T. Sherman, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernie Pyle, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Julia Child, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. Collected in War Letters, they are an astonishing historical record, a powerful tribute to those who fought, and a celebration of the enduring power of letters.

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Title	:	War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
Author	:	Andrew Carroll
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2002 by Scribner (first published January 1st 2001)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. Military Fiction. Military. Military History

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This book should be required reading for all American high school students. This book is about much more than war. It is reading history through the letters of individual Americans.

Gearing up for the Ken Burns WW2 documentary at the end of the month! We'll call this 4.5 stars. I may go back to change it to 5. I think the greatest thing about this was that the letters so often said the same things - doesn't matter if it was written in a letter during the Civil War or an e-mail during the first Iraq war. It was really hard to read some of the letters, feel like you know the writer, and then have the little italics under it say he died shortly after mailing it. Like the man

I don't generally give 5 stars, but I can't think of a single reason to not give this compilation of primary sources 5 stars. To be clear that isn't any credit to Carroll as he only compiled them -- and yes I understand that was no small task -- but a credit to the men and women who wrote these letters.For all the reviewers who said this should be used in American classrooms, rest assured, it is. Not in its entirety for time purposes and because as we move forward in time the letters become

This book does not lend itself to being read word for word. I did read most of it. It works best if the reader browses rather than reading cover to cover.The Editor, Andrew Carroll, founded the Legacy Project with the goal of preserving the letters of service people for posterity. This volume covers the Civil War, WW I, WW II, Korea, The Cold War, Vietnam, the First Gulf War, Somalia and Bosnia. For reasons that are as much personal as anything, I spent most of my time in the WW II section. It

I must say I read only some of the WWI and Civil war letters, and then skipped to the WWII sections and read through all of them. it was so neat to get another look at the war from the men who fought in it.

There are many letters included in this volume. Some are extraordinary for their insight on issues ranging from life and war to the tenderness of familial concerns. Many ordinary letters provide a glimpse into war on personal terms. It is a good book for picking up and browsing a little at a time.

This refers to the audio version, which my spouse bought a year or so ago. Bottom line, it was far more, and far better, then I expected. 85 letters with background and follow up encasing each letter. There is substantial historical context not only to the individual letters, but also to the milieu of war in which they were written. They begin with the Civil War, follow with first world war, second world war, Korea, and Vietnam. There are even a couple of letters from the Cold War era. They deal