Letters and News from the Trenches and the Home Front

By Marie Clayton

Timed with anniversary of WWI; Unique and rare extracts from Daily Mail; Highly illustrated. Letters and editorial published in the Daily Mail give a first hand contemporary record of the Great War.

During the First World War the Daily Mail published letters from soldiers and civilians as well as reports from the front line and comment by literary figures such as John Galsworthy, Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy. This volume mixes these elements from the paper's archive with private diaries, correspondence and photographs from the battle and home fronts to give a valuable contemporary perspective on the war