War Letters

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...

Buried in archives and forgotten for centuries, the voices of the Revolution are finally revealed in Lost Letters of the American Revolution. This extraordinary collection of more than 100 authentic letters pulls back the curtain on the untold human drama of America’s fight for independence. Here are the words they never meant for us to see: spies sending coded messages in lemon juice, desperate mothers begging Congress for food and shelter, soldiers marching to their deaths, and enslaved men pleading for the liberty they were promised but denied.

In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.

In 1978, a VA hospital clerk named Thomas Crane made a discovery that would change everything. While processing the personal effects of James "Rabbit" Morrison—a Vietnam veteran who had died alone in Richmond's VA hospital—Crane found something extraordinary: forty-seven letters that had been written but never sent. These weren't ordinary letters. Hidden in Morrison's footlocker were confessions that five soldiers from Firebase Charlie had carried in secret for a decade. Letters to fiancées explaining why gentle farm boys had become efficient killers. Letters to parents confessing to ...

She isn’t a stranger to survival. But can she persevere when the North invades her home and shatters their way of life? Florida, 1862. Mary Adeline Walker Andrews cannot falter. Worried about her husband and eldest son fighting in the Civil War, the strong-willed mother of eleven wields faith and resourcefulness to keep her household running and her family fed. And as the country’s conflict rages on, the level-headed matriarch fights to defend against deserters, raids, and the growing fear of loss. But she struggles to maintain her optimism when the Union seizes control of her town. ...

This is a fictional series of letters starting in 1861 between brothers from South Mississippi. The oldest brother, Author, is fighting for the South, while James, the youngest, has run away from home and joined the Union army. The letters between the two brothers, and the girl they are both sweet on, Beth, as well as to their Ma and Pa, are full of horrors of war, the unbelievable cruelties put upon the slaves, and some redeeming qualities of humans mixed in.

The Last Letter A forgotten box. A stack of letters. A family secret waiting to be uncovered. When Anna finds a hidden collection of wartime letters and a final message from Karl Becker, she is drawn into a world of courage, sacrifice, and whispered truths from World War II. As she pieces together her grandmother’s mysterious past, Anna must confront the shadows that linger across generations. The Last Letter is a gripping historical novel about love, loyalty, and the power of memory to heal—and haunt. Perfect for readers who love richly woven stories with emotional depth and suspense.

"Fans of codebreakers, spies, and Cold War dramas will be entrapped by Reay's tale of courage, love, and honor set against the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall." - Booklist Starred Review Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker...

Sergeant Brian Preston's life is marked by love, loss, and duty. "His Last Letter From War" tells the heart-wrenching story of a husband’s love, a son's courage, a mother's unwavering love, and the unbreakable bond that endures even in the darkest of times. From Utica, a small city in Upstate New York, to the battlefields of Vietnam, Brian’s only solace is the letters he writes to his mother, Rita. These letters become a lifeline, connecting them across the miles and offering a glimmer of hope in the darkest times. As the war rages on, Rita receives her last letter, which holds the ...

Archie Gibson's initiation into desert warfare almost proved to be his last. Barrelling through the sand dunes at the wheel of his truck, Gibson spied a searing flash of light up ahead, the signature of a feared German 88mm gun firing ... right at him. He leapt from his speeding vehicle just...

Set in the framework of historical events with political overtones, the Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto and Mexican-American War come to life for the reader. The story is told through the eyes of Texas Ranger Jesse McAlester. ImpressumIn Scotland in the 1820s, the Highland Clearances forced the McAlester family to the coastal areas of Scotland where they continued their thoroughbred and training program. A tragedy compelled the family to flee to America by way of New Orleans. “The novel Alamo Letters is a tale of a young Scottish immigrant whose journey takes him all the way to...

The Navigator’s Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love. One of the riskiest air raids of World War II occurred on August 1, 1943, over the oil fields at...

June 1967. Joseph Ward watches his nineteen-year-old son board a bus to Fort Polk, Louisiana. It's the last time he'll see Daniel as a boy. For the next nineteen months, Joseph fights a war from his driveway in Kokomo, Indiana—checking the mailbox twice daily, watching Walter Cronkite count casualties, drinking alone in the basement while his son screams through nightmares eight thousand miles away. This is not another soldier's story. This is the war nobody writes about: the fathers who stood helpless while their sons walked into the jungle. The mothers who slept in empty bedrooms. The ...

In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed.

* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect...

This massive 128-hour collection builds a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy, connecting many of the most important and influential works ever written. Here you’ll encounter thinkers who dared to question everything, challenged the norms of their day and reshaped how humanity sees itself and the world.

He was not a priest. He was not a Marine. He carried the rifle so the chaplain could carry the dead. In January 1968, the North Vietnamese Army surrounds 6,000 Marines on a red-clay plateau in the mountains of Quang Tri Province. The siege of Khe Sanh has begun. It will last seventy-seven days. Daniel Marsh is an Army chaplain's assistant — MOS 56M — assigned to protect Father Maddox, a Catholic priest who cannot carry a weapon. Daniel carries one for him. Into the aid stations and the fighting holes, across the perimeter wire and up the hills, as the 130mm artillery comes in without ...

An ordinary life…Everything in Daniel Coughlin’s life in Brooklyn has been comfortable. His Irish Catholic roots tie his extended family together in a close knot. His life is ordinary — but perfect.Until Daniel uncovers life-altering family secrets…A rift with his oldest son, Liam, threatens to ruin their family Christmas. Daniel’s elderly mother is emphatic that the box of WWII love letters hidden in her attic will solve the problem between him and Liam, but Daniel has no interest in reading them. What answers can fifty-year-old letters hold for him? The tension threatens to rip ...

Safe from the horrors of war, a German soldier makes the ultimate sacrifice. After surviving the hell of Stalingrad and two brutal years on the Eastern Front, Sergeant Franz Mayer returns home—not as a hero, but as a deserter. Not by choice, but by circumstance. With the SS hunting men like him and the Reich collapsing, his only chance is to vanish. Fate intervenes when an elderly couple—grieving the son the war stole from them—risk everything to hide him and help him reach his family. But safety doesn’t last. When a convoy of army lorries rolls through the village, Franz is forced ...

Experience romance and adversity in the Civil War through the eyes of a man who lived it, Lt. Col Luther Strong of Ohio. For four years Luther Strong wrote 44 heartfelt letters home as he courts his future wife, Mary Milliman. He grapples with his emotions as the initial adventure of war turns violent and bloody. Luther comes to know hardship, hunger and grief, yet tries to find solace where he can – in nature, battlefield successes and his budding relationship with Mary. Intended at the time for Mary’s eyes only, Luther’s Letters take today’s readers back to the most tumultuous ...