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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Carroll is 35 and lives in Washington DC. Following a fire that destroyed his house and his own small collection of letters, he founded the Legacy Project, an international all-volunteer initiative to preserve wartime correspondence. He is the editor of three New York Times bestsellers: War Letters, Letters of a Nation, and In Our Own Words. He is also executive director of the American Poetry and Literacy Project, which he co-founded with the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. In the USA he has been responsible for bringing back the 'Armed Service Editions' (ASEs), which were pocket-sized editions of national bestsellers and literary classics handed out to US troops stationed abroad during World War II. Klappentext Featuring letters and emails from war zones, and including the memories both sides of the hostilities documented, this book is an emotive and poignant depiction of war. It looks at warfare through the eyes of troops and civilians. It covers the major global conflicts from World War I and II and the American Revolution, up to Afghanistan and Iraq. Zusammenfassung Featuring letters and emails from war zones, and including the memories both sides of the hostilities documented, this book is an emotive and poignant depiction of war. It looks at warfare through the eyes of troops and civilians. It covers the major global conflicts from World War I and II and the American Revolution, up to Afghanistan and Iraq.
