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.

A letter could not stop a bullet — but it could keep a soldier alive. Across two world wars, millions of men waited in muddy trenches, frozen forests, naval convoys, and desert encampments for one figure more eagerly than any officer or supply wagon — the postman. The Mailman at War in WWI and WWII reveals the untold human story of wartime mail: the letters that carried hope, grief, love, fear, and identity across continents, and the men and women who risked their lives to deliver them. Drawing on diaries, field reports, postal archives, and first-hand correspondence, Adam Langweiler ...

Markus Bauer tells the moving story of his great-uncle, Leonhard März, who experienced the madness of the Eastern Front as an anti-tank gunner – and never returned from the Tarnopol encirclement in 1944. “If things continue as they are now, there won’t be anything left of our regiment within a month. Every day ten to twenty of the boys are wounded or killed.” “We drove the Russians out of the city. They had suffered terrible losses. They lie around in heaps.” Drafted into the Wehrmacht in early 1941 and trained on an anti-tank gun, the young soldier is thrown into the hell of ...

* 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...

"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...

From the perspective of "an officer and a gentleman"—a memoir of World War II told through letters sent from an Army Infantry captain to his lovely Red Cross wife back home. It is a story of love amidst a heroic war; a love begun in the Army camps of the southern US, and then continued from afar from the jungles of the South Pacific: New Guinea, Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.

Who was Abraham Lincoln before he was a monument? This is not another life of Lincoln. It is a book about how the American Lincoln was made: the campaign biography that fixed the log cabin and the rail-splitter in the summer of 1860; the speech that nobody recorded and a biographer reconstructed; the letter of consolation that may have been written by his secretary; the partner who thought the funeral sermons had left out the man; the poets and preachers who turned a murdered president into a saint; and the enemies who invented a different Lincoln, equally useful to them. The editor's ...

📜 Inspired by an incredible true story, this is an unforgettable novel about love, loss and one impossible choice𓂃🪶 ‘I loved this… Wonderful… Really tugged at my heart strings… My favourite… Had everything I love’ Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ ‘OMG… Excellent. Chefs...

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. 

When Beth Thompson’s only son, James, goes missing in action in Afghanistan, she is left with her prayers, hopes, fears... and letters. Mother and son have been writing since boot camp. James writes of his struggle to become a confident soldier and of his concern for his young wife and their...

Robert E. Lee is one of the most famous and decorated American generals in history. The son of Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, General Lee was a native of Virginia and a top graduate at West Point. So distinguished was Lee that President Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the entire Union army before the onset of the Civil War. Lee famously declined the offer and instead served his home state of Virginia after it seceded.

“A gorgeous and thrilling novel… Perfect for book clubs and fans of The Nightingale.” –PopSugar A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families...

Chicago, 1944. Liz Stephens has little interest in attending a USO club dance with her friends Betty and Julia. She doesn't need a flirtation with a lonely serviceman when she's set to marry her childhood sweetheart. Yet something happens the moment Liz glimpses Morgan McClain. They share only a brief exchange - cut short by the soldier's evident interest in Betty - but Liz can't forget him. Thus, when Betty asks her to ghostwrite a letter to Morgan, stationed overseas, Liz reluctantly agrees.  

In The Love Letter by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck, the lines between fiction and reality are blurred when a screenwriter begins to fall for the lead actress in his story inspired by a centuries-old love letter penned by his ancestor on the eve of battle. When Chloe is given a...

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.

“A gripping and thrilling tale. The writing was INCREDIBLE!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Her letters can save the country. But can she be trusted? A double agent. As World War Two rages, MI5 agent Sarah Gillespie is faced with her toughest challenge yet: handling Adeline Vernier, a...

THE IRON CROSS BARGAIN A Wehrmacht Doctor’s Fight to Save His Family Letters from the Eastern Front, 1941–1942 He made a bargain with the Nazi regime. It worked. But it cost him everything. In 1939, Dr. Helmut Machemer—36, an ophthalmologist, exempt from service by age and profession—volunteered on the first day of the war. By 1941, he served as a combat medic with a tank reconnaissance unit, crossing into Ukraine with Operation Barbarossa. He had a plan. Under Nazi racial law, his wife, Erna, was classified as “half-Jewish,” and their three sons as “quarter-Jewish.” Their ...

A heartwarming Western romance full of courage, redemption, and unexpected love. In the rugged hills of post–Civil War Arkansas, Dewey Slocum wants only a simple life—work the family farm and marry the girl next door. But when his father is beaten and robbed by outlaws, Dewey’s hot-headed brother charges off in revenge… and vanishes into the wild. Determined to bring his brother home, Dewey sets out across a divided land still scarred by war. Along the way, he meets Phyllis, a brave young woman of mixed Cherokee and African descent searching for her mother—sold away before the ...

Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, this remarkable gathering of original documents, including never-before-published letters and papers, creates a day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War. New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and author Allen C. Guelzo delivers an invaluable and sobering firsthand perspective of the Civil War’s turning point.