Choreographing correspondences
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2023

This chapter explores multiple aspects of soldiers’ letters in the two largest Allied armies of the Second World War. Laying out the physical properties of letters and their generic qualities, it discusses the ways in which the Chaplaincy of the US Army and the Political Directorate of the Red Army shaped and utilised these missives to improve morale. Chaplains and political workers encouraged soldiers to maintain connections with home and often inserted themselves into these conversations. Chap