War Letters of Fallen Englishmen Edited by Laurence Housman. Foreword by Jay Winter "Excellent, truth-telling letters."--Edmund Blunden "In this book we get what, after all, I must call the real thing."--H. W. Nevinson "The whole book is of such a quality as to stir the remembrance of "the hope and promise of youth, which the wastefulness of war has carried away.""--Times Literary Supplement More than eight million young men perished during the First World War--a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown--brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to...